How to Use megalith in a Sentence

megalith

noun
  • His buildings rise from the earth like twisted post-post-modern megaliths.
    — Maurice Alcala, Orange County Register, 5 May 2017
  • Because the megalith is carved from sandstone, it is made of many minerals.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The first-floor tenant is Ladurée, the megalith macaronier whose pastel hues match the Wing’s decor.
    — Chloe Malle, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Despite the deluge of new data, the megaliths had given up none of their obdurate strangeness.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • There is no surveillance at the site, leaving tourists free to interact with—and likely damage—the megaliths.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The term megalith was first used for Stonehenge, to describe the stone edifices, often used for worship.
    — Carlos Barria, National Geographic, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The temple consists of an array of chambers and some 200 standing stones, or megaliths — the first of their kind.
    — Christopher Woolf, USA TODAY, 30 June 2017
  • The site now features price comparisons to prove to its customers that its 72-hour sales are far cheaper than those online megaliths.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Over the next few thousand years megaliths were built across Europe and North Africa as well as southwest Asia.
    — Christopher Woolf, USA TODAY, 30 June 2017
  • The world of fine art has long looked to the monolith and the megalith as attempts to invoke the awe of that natural, near-mystical perfection.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The game’s megaliths did not redesign the Champions League to empower the minnows.
    — Sam Lee, The Athletic, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The Taiwanese megalith has a massive product scope, but on the consumer end, they're best known for PC hardware.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Scattered among the heaping red rock hills of the Pilbara lies the world’s densest collection of petroglyphs and megaliths.
    — Michelle Tchea, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Even as TikTok has become a megalith and other social networks have lost their touch with the youth, the site has retained its audience.
    — Kevin Lozano, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Logistics may seem like an intimidating industry for some investors – a flailing megalith with its feet still firmly planted in a bygone era.
    — Marianne Lehnis, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • And in Indonesia, on the island of Sumba, people still build tombs with massive megaliths that take teams of a few hundred people to pull to the gravesite on wooden sledges.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The global energy business is a multifaceted megalith, projected to post $4 trillion in profits this year.
    — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Small countries can’t be expected to invest in the same capacity as megaliths like China and the United States.
    — Leon Gordon, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Given these numbers, are dams in Africa doomed to a future of becoming large, crumbling megaliths towering over landscapes bright with electric lights that find their power elsewhere?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Recently uncovered megaliths and monoliths, though now lying submerged, once adorned a coastal landscape long before the spread of agriculture across Europe.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Mnajdra includes three buildings, and on the summer solstice, the first rays of sun light up the edge of a megalith found to the left of the central doorway connecting the first pair of chambers to the inner chambers.
    — Kristen Pope, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • In contrast to the rectilinear blocks at Stonehenge, the Stenness megaliths are thin slabs with angled upper edges, like upside-down guillotine blades.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The action took place two days ahead of the summer solstice, when many visitors flock to the rocky megaliths, and ahead of the UK’s July 4 general election.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 20 June 2024
  • Liberal-leaning television networks were a megalith, and First Amendment-protected besides.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2025
  • For centuries, the ancient megalith has intrigued and mystified all who’ve seen it, including the medieval historian Henry of Huntingdon.
    — National Geographic, 19 July 2022
  • The Altar Stone is the largest of the bluestone megaliths, and while previous research has ruled out Anglo-Welsh origin, scientists were uncertain about where this stone came from.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2024
  • While music cataloging and streaming services are not a monolith, their actions have consequently turned music discovery into a set of megaliths that will continue to confound and limit artists and listeners alike.
    — Mario J. Lucero, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2020
  • It's thought that the 3,000 megaliths of the Carnac Stones in Brittany, France, mark the extreme positions of the moon during a major lunar standstill.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Experts are divided on the nature of one megalith engraving, Euronews’ Marta Rodriguez Martinez reports.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Rap Nui’s moai statues are massive megaliths that were built by the Rapa Nui people in roughly 1400–1650 CE.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Oct. 2025

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