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How to use obelisk in a sentence

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Jordan arrived at work yesterday to find a stone obelisk in front of the restaurant toppled over.
All I could see, from a distance, were numerous hands vigorously hurling stones at the aforementioned obelisk.
High above a hill in Oakwood Cemetery at Troy, New York, stands a huge obelisk, a monument to the life of Maj.
The catalogue describes an obelisk and a stele brought back as symbols of imperial conquest.
Through the eye of a 5m-tall obelisk, the observer will see the south celestial pole, the point in the sky about which the southern stars rotate.
The straight vertical edge that viewers see as they walk into the room could be an obelisk, a standing figure, or even a stone tombstone.
The famous Castletown obelisk, for example, is on land that forms part of the Carton demesne.
The division sign was in Rahn's time known either as the obelus or sometimes the obelisk, from a Greek word meaning a roasting spit.
He worships at an obelisk lit by a single spotlamp, dressed in roughly fashioned cowhide.
Thus, at Treblinka, the memorial to those killed consists of 17,000 granite shards surrounding a large obelisk broken down the middle.
Approximately in 50 metres from coast there is a small gone to pieces obelisk in honour of the victim here the seafarer.
Had the obelisk been successfully completed, it would be the single heaviest piece of monolithic stonework reaching about 42 m and weighing over 1168 tonnes.
The very famous avenue of the Champs-Elysées leads from the obelisk at the place de la Concorde up to the Arc-de-Triomphe.
He was faced with a monolithic obelisk of pumice with long turquoise strips running along it vertically, the area around it devoid of any tombstones.
After years of negotiations and a tough journey, the obelisk was planted at the Place de la Concorde.
Burj Dubai is a long glass and steel obelisk that reflects the raging sun of the Arabian Peninsula.
On the top of the obelisk is a 100-ounce aluminum cap, which acts as a lightning rod.
The fountains on each side of the obelisk represent inland and maritime navigation.
From the orange obelisk monument of Ohakune, to the corrugated iron sheep and dog combo, outlandish structures remind us of the cargo-cult of tourism and a need to be noticed.
The battle site was for many years recorded by a stone obelisk which stood on the bank of the river at Oldbridge but which was blown up in the early years of the 20th century.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In the plate attached to his essay, Hittorf gives us a plan and elevation of the pyramidion of the smaller obelisk of Luxor.
Over the dead president's grave is a mound, from the top of which rises a granite obelisk twenty feet high.
At Annonay there is an obelisk in honour of the brothers montgolfier, inventors of the balloon, who were natives of the place.
It went up the Nile as near to the place where the obelisk stood as it could go.
Then they made a road leading from the place where the obelisk stood to the river.
These pipes are disjoined at the upper part of the obelisk, which forms a sort of basin, with which the pipes are connected.
The pyramidion of the obelisk, on the other hand, was called benben by the Egyptians.
If a pyramid or obelisk mould, lift it carefully off the top.
His attitude was arrestive as an obelisk and uncircuitable as a labyrinth.
My blue-eyed friend erected himself into an obelisk of profanity.
The Kingstown obelisk commemorates his departure from his Irish dominions.
Even his cuff-buttons were engraved with hieroglyphics, and he was more inscribed than an Egyptian obelisk.
We turned to the right, circling at a stately pace about the rather mean obelisk which stands at the entrance to the Prado.
Adams, of Philadelphia, marked by an Egyptian obelisk of granite.
Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth, here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk.
In 1648 the obelisk was repaired and in 1649 it was erected in the Piazza Navona which still reflects the shape of the palaestra of a stadium that had been built by Domitian.
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