Sentence Examples

1. Furious citizens jammed the courtyard surrounding the obelisk.
2. The club remained as an obelisk of bad luck to her.
3. Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth, here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk.
4. In truth, it actually looked like an ugly gray obelisk with a metal dish on top.
5. They divided it into cakes by methods too well known to require description, and these, being sledded to the shore, were rapidly hauled off on to an ice platform, and raised by grappling irons and block and tackle, worked by horses, on to a stack, as surely as so many barrels of flour, and there placed evenly side by side, and row upon row, as if they formed the solid base of an obelisk designed to pierce the clouds.
6. The great dome of the Capitol Building, Union Square with its towering statue of The People in Victory, the obelisk, and many other public works defied the darkness with daggers of white light shooting up into the night sky.