How to Use foundation stone in a Sentence

foundation stone

noun
  • In one trench, dirt was carefully brushed from what appeared to be a flagstone floor and foundation stones.
    — Megan Specia, New York Times, 26 May 2024
  • To be a truly great newspaper is to be a civic foundation stone for a just and free society.
    — Washington Post, 14 June 2024
  • Will left tackle Ronnie Stanley be healthy enough to reclaim his role as the foundation stone?
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 1 Feb. 2022
  • In August, Modi laid down the foundation stone for a new temple to be built at the site of the Babri mosque.
    — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Contractors will lay the foundation stone in May, and construction is expected to take four years.
    — Joseph D’hippolito, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The building’s foundation stone was engraved with an earlier date, Reitz said.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Nearly three years ago, the royal laid the foundation stone for the Oak Cancer Centre.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
  • Life insurance and life insurance trusts are a foundation stone of estate planning for many families.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • Eppink hopes the original bridge and the foundation stones from a barn will remain on the property to help preserve its history.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2019
  • This gravestone represents the foundation stone upon which Real Madrid was built.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • At the back of the open-air seating area, 16 golden shovels festooned with red bows poked from a circle of fine brown dirt, with a foundation stone at the center.
    — Kyle Munson, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2017
  • This is a piece of MB&F history and will be seen as a foundation stone by collectors and enthusiasts.
    — Blake Buettner, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2024
  • This principle is the very foundation stone of mutual respect and non-discrimination.
    — Graham Dunbar, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The letter was dated June 2, one week after Hitler had laid the foundation stone for the Volkswagen factory.
    — David De Jong, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Remnants of this period on Sapelo still resonate in the foundation stones, earthworks and with the Sapelonians themselves.
    — Brett McNish, Smithsonian, 15 Feb. 2018
  • In a symbolic step for the project, community members gathered on May 31 under a tent on the land for a foundation stone laying ceremony.
    — Claire Harutunian, Charlotte Observer, 17 June 2026
  • They must be held to account, along with Johnson, for lying to the people they were elected to serve about the very foundation stone of our democratic republic — the legitimacy of elections.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Though seven more years would pass before the foundation stone was laid, Wren’s new cathedral would be England’s first built since the Reformation and its first non-Gothic one.
    — Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 11 May 2018
  • And it's become one of the foundation stones upholding Republican dominance of state political offices.
    — Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL.com, 14 Jan. 2018
  • On the first anniversary of the decision on Jammu and Kashmir, Modi this year laid the foundation stone for the temple in Ayodhya.
    — Upmanyu Trivedi, Bloomberg.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Developers laid the first foundation stone for the museum in 2002 but construction did not begin until 2005.
    — Ayat Al-Tawy, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2025
  • British sovereignty over the Chagos Islands is the veritable foundation stone necessary to effectively achieve its defense purposes.
    — Sandeep Gopalan, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Erdogan eagerly associates himself with new stadiums—laying foundation stones, presiding over openings, even playing in exhibition matches.
    — Patrick Keddie, The New Republic, 7 May 2018
  • In April last year, eight months before Modi laid the parliament's foundation stone in a high-profile photo-op, a petition was filed to the Supreme Court opposing plans on legal and environmental grounds.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN, 8 May 2021
  • Modi, reelected resoundingly that year after a heavily Hindu nationalist campaign, laid the foundation stone at the construction site in 2020 as work began.
    — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
  • There, beside the shiplike hulk of the Basilica of San Petronio—which is a work in progress, the foundation stone having been laid in 1390, and which somebody really should get around to finishing one of these days—was a vast white screen.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • At a ceremony in 2021, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó laid the foundation stone of the new terminal.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
  • However, thanks to a steady stream of benefactors and dedicated professors, Jamia survived, going on to lay the foundation stone for its current campus in Okhla, near New Delhi, in 1935.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 29 Dec. 2019
  • There is a much celebrated photo of Carvajal, aged 12, laying the ceremonial foundation stone for their training ground, accompanied by the legendary Alfredo di Stefano.
    — Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The Princess of Wales made an appearance to celebrate the laying of the foundation stone for the hospital's new children's ambulatory care center, with a vibrant ensemble by fashion designer Catherine Walker.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2022

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