How to Use obelisk in a Sentence

obelisk

noun
  • The Heizer sort of fills in for the obelisk.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 6 Mar. 2026
  • These were the same kind of guys who were building these obelisks so many thousands of years ago.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 June 2019
  • If the efforts turn up a big black obelisk somewhere, so much the better.
    — NBC News, 30 Apr. 2018
  • From Broadway, looking south, the obelisk would have stood out.
    — Greg Goldin, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
  • His tomb in Père-Lachaise Cemetery is marked with an obelisk.
    — Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
  • The obelisk at his grave was shipped by steamboat from New Orleans.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2020
  • In the yard were a stone obelisk and a pyramid covered with intricate tiles.
    — AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • She's worked for Texas Pipe for 30 years and has the glass obelisk on her desk to prove it.
    — Chris Gray, Houston Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2018
  • Since then, the white obelisk has received many spectacular games.
    — George Yang, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026
  • His vertical image puts our famed obelisk right in the middle of the picture.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
  • In front of the border checkpoint stood a large white obelisk and a red Soviet star.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The obelisk first arrived in Rome during the reign of Caligula.
    — William Gurstelle, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The spokesman said the roads are separated by a ditch and there are obelisks marking the border.
    — NBC News, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Made to order in Egypt, the obelisk was then shipped back to Benevento.
    — Susan Delson, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • An August 2011 earthquake left cracks in the stones near the top of the obelisk.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The league is built to be an annual snow globe, and the Patriots are an obelisk at the top of the league.
    — Adam Kilgore, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The men drove a wooden obelisk into the spongy ground and gathered around it for a series of photographs.
    — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Many Wilsons have been laid to rest there, including Hiram, whose grave is marked by a tall obelisk.
    — Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2025
  • Two horse-sized sphinxes flank a main entrance worthy of a small fort or castle, and a couple of obelisks rise from the rooftop.
    — Lawrence Specker | , al, 10 May 2023
  • The structure can be a homemade or a commercial trellis, arch, obelisk, or lattice wall.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 23 May 2026
  • Trellises, obelisks and arbors add a dimension that plantings alone cannot achieve.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The group tried but could not topple a 50-foot-tall Confederate obelisk.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 12 June 2020
  • Brenda Guise drove with her husband, Dave, from Stephenville, Texas, to see the obelisk.
    — Ian Bateson, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
  • As the day progressed, the ropes used to move the obelisk started to slip and lengthen, endangering the outcome of the project.
    — William Gurstelle, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The Place de la Concorde is closed, and a series of bleachers surround the world-famous obelisk.
    — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 26 June 2024
  • The movement of the 30-foot obelisk was ordered by a county judge, after the city called it a threat to public safety.
    — Devon M. Sayers, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The plan was for the obelisk to rise out of a classic Greek pavilion at its base; the sketches suggest a unicorn sunk in a wedding cake.
    — Michael S. Hopkins, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2021
  • The obelisk has been there since at least 2016, according to Google satellite images.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Nov. 2020
  • An obelisk pilfered from ancient Egypt in the early days of the Roman Empire soared.
    — Kerri Westenberg, Philly.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • An obelisk pilfered from ancient Egypt in the early days of the Roman Empire soared.
    — Kerri Westenberg, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2017

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