How to Use national monument in a Sentence

national monument

noun
  • But even after the site was named a national monument, progress was slow.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2020
  • The store is close to the monument sites but is not part of the new national monument.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • Some of the parcels up for auction are just outside the national monument.
    — Sammy Roth Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The prairie is known for its wide open space, which includes a national monument and wildlife refuges that house herds of elk and pronghorn.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
  • As one of the newer national monuments, this one is sparse in amenities and has little signage.
    — Julia Duin, Outside Online, 6 June 2025
  • The site will now be listed in the country’s national monuments database.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The compound is now a national monument.
    — Andy Rose, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
  • While the museum is open year-round, the best times of year to explore the national monument are early fall and mid to late-spring.
    — Maya Silver, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2025
  • In the last month, vandals have struck the national monument outside the bar four times, snapping dozens of its rainbow flags in half.
    — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 25 June 2023
  • The Baroque style palace is still used as a family home, mausoleum and national monument.
    — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • This week, the trees in the national park were believed to be faring better than those in the national monument.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The bill would declare the island, owned by New York state, a national monument.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2024
  • There’s never been a ruling on whether a president can decrease the size of a national monument.
    — Lauren Katz, Vox, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The 1000-plus acre park has been a national monument for more than half a century.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Not a national monument or site, but a full-blown, certified national park.
    — Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 31 May 2026
  • Trump has shrunk the size of national monuments to allow mining, oil and gas drilling, and has proposed opening coastal waters to oil drilling.
    — Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The national monument only reopened to the public last week, after a nine-month close due to the pandemic.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2021
  • The tour starts with a Grand Canyon stop to announce plans for a new national monument to preserve more than a million acres.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Trump has spoken of possibly making the site a national monument.
    — Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The home, a national monument, was later turned into a museum and restored.
    — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026
  • The land was established first as a national monument in 1937.
    — Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 11 Oct. 2024
  • There have been three attempts to create a national monument at the Great Bend of the Gila.
    — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Last month, Italy declared the waters around Venice a national monument and banned large cruise ships from entering.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Samman has appealed to politicians to make the memorial at the farm a national monument and to raise more funds to continue adding names and maintain it.
    — Carlie Porterfield, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • In 1913 it was deemed a national monument by the Swiss government.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The trip, on which each veteran is joined by an escort, will take them to national monuments and war memorials for the first time for five days at no cost to the veteran.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The United States designates the fort as a national monument and historic shrine.
    — Ellen Knickmeyer, baltimoresun.com, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The state offers several national monuments outside of the official parks as well.
    — Brooke Baitinger september 25, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Southern Utah is home to five national parks, four national monuments, and countless hiking and biking trails.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Combine a visit to the parks with a stop at one of South Dakota’s iconic national monuments and memorials.
    — Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018

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