How to Use landmark in a Sentence

landmark

noun
  • The moon landing is a landmark in space exploration.
  • The decision was a landmark in legal history.
  • The battlefield is a national historical landmark.
  • Namath did not throw a pass in the fourth quarter of the landmark game.
    Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Here are some of our favorite facts and secrets about the Irish landmark.
    Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Hot pink runs through the middle, while doodles and landmarks fill the background.
    Donna St. George, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The landmark structure’s age has been showing for years.
    The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • One of the town’s cherished landmarks is still standing: a 150-year-old banyan tree on Front Street.
    Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The landmark findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 27 July 2023
  • The City of Lights and its many world-famous landmarks will take center stage at this year’s Games.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 26 July 2024
  • Here is a woman who is one half of a landmark, era-defining rock band.
    Melissa Giannini, ELLE, 1 June 2023
  • Immigrant Dreams: Our landmark poll surveys the lives of one-sixth of the nation.
    Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The most Instagrammable chapel in L.A. is now a historic landmark.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • But the closest city in the entire world to that aqueous landmark is Tema, Ghana — where my mother grew up.
    Emefa Addo Agawu, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The network settled the landmark defamation case for $787.5 million in April.
    J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The prices won't take effect until 2026, but the measure is a landmark for Medicare.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Here’s what visitors can expect from the first-of-its-kind landmark.
    Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 June 2024
  • April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the day this landmark report was published ...
    Connor Boyack, National Review, 24 Apr. 2023
  • But one thing is for sure: The city has a brand-new cultural landmark on its hands, and that’s exciting.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
  • At its deepest depths, close to 130 feet below the surface, Greeks quarried great caverns from the rock to build the city’s landmarks.
    Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
  • There is a lot of confusion surrounding the landmark status of the Walk of Fame, Correia said.
    Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The case had been closely watched for its potential to weaken the landmark voting rights law.
    Mark Sherman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2023
  • The banner is working with Netflix and has a landmark series in the pipeline with Channel 4.
    Tara Conlan, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Sunday could be regarded as one of the landmarks of the calendar.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 30 June 2024
  • Sometimes, the three of us would wander to specific landmarks in the park—the stables to see the horses, the great beech tree, the rocky patch of land by the creek where people bring their dogs to play.
    Dayna Evans, ELLE, 14 July 2023
  • To undo landmark rulings like Roe, his movement would need to make sure the court heard the right cases brought by the right people and heard by the right lower court judges.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Last month, a judge ruled in their favor in a landmark decision that also found the state was complicit in the problem.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The building was designated a city landmark in 1993, and is now called Courthouse Place.
    David Owen, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Dior joins the ranks of luxury brands backing the renovation of Italian landmarks.
    Joelle Diderich, WWD, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The flight back is just as scenic, soaring over the Matthews mountain range — a remote and inaccessible landmark filled with dramatic cliffs, cycad forests, and flowing rivers.
    Shaun Stanley, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2024

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