How to Use mausoleum in a Sentence

mausoleum

noun
  • The path leading to the mausoleum's door had been strewn with white rose petals.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Buster said King’s mausoleum was smeared with a gallon of black paint.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 27 Sep. 2022
  • So green burials do not use stones or mausoleums or crypts or anything like that.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Movie starts at dusk, but arrive early for food trucks and a mausoleum tour!
    — Alissa Widman Neese, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Hedges surround a sleek black tombstone and a gray mausoleum.
    — Sarah Hume, The Courier-Journal, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Gala is even buried in the basement’s mausoleum, dressed in red Dior.
    — Gemma Askham, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
  • In town, the Olympic great's pink-marble mausoleum lures few tourists.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 9 Jan. 2023
  • If the ashes are deposited in an urn, will it be placed in a mausoleum?
    — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Vic starts to dial the police, so Joe brains him with a mausoleum vase.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Part of his audio archive has become a mausoleum to past lives.
    — Heather Abbott, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Draped in the Turkish flag, the mausoleum began its slow climb.
    — Rachel Brown, National Geographic, 23 May 2017
  • In the mausoleum, both his grandfather and his father lie in state.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Inside the mausoleum, a small podium was set up along with 24 chairs in three rows.
    — CBS News, 9 June 2020
  • She was cremated and her ashes were to be placed in a mausoleum at a later date.
    — Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Some remnants might be preserved in a mausoleum, an urn or even kept as a keepsake, close to a loved one.
    — Simone Talma Flowers, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The mausoleum of Zeynel Bay is safely installed in its new site.
    — Rachel Brown, National Geographic, 23 May 2017
  • His apartment was a squalid den of decay, a mausoleum to forgotten dreams and lost hopes.
    — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 24 May 2023
  • Some are buried in the ground and covered with flowers while others are left at the center of vast mausoleums.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
  • Work on the mausoleum atop a hill at the shrine had already begun when this latest change of mind was announced.
    — Farai Mutsaka, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The mausoleum is a private business in partnership with the city.
    — Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Stroll through the grounds for free and admire the intricate headstones and mausoleums.
    — Krista Simmons, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2026
  • The alleged thieves ripped bronze plaques and grave markers from headstones and walls of the cemetery's mausoleum.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Those looking to book their 50-minute tours in advance can do so through the mausoleum’s website.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2020
  • The scene ends with the truck flying through a mausoleum, also made from Styrofoam blocks.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
  • The rebels, in one of their first acts, stormed the mausoleum of Hafez al-Assad and set his coffin ablaze.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Veil, widely admired in France, will become just the fifth woman laid to rest in the grand mausoleum.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 5 July 2017
  • Rogers died of cancer in 2003 and is buried in the family mausoleum there.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Venus, Saturn and Jupiter stood in a line above the mausoleum’s sandstone pillars.
    — Nicholas J. R. White Kat Hill, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The book is slim, its pages filled with white space, and the photos themselves take on the feeling of a mausoleum’s statuary.
    — Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2024
  • For months, mausoleums in the graveyard, some more than a hundred years old, were being looted in the dead of night, police said.
    — Gaya Gupta, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2026

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