How to Use mausoleum in a Sentence

mausoleum

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  • The mausoleum in Madrid known as the Valley of the Fallen.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The path leading to the mausoleum's door had been strewn with white rose petals.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Gala is even buried in the basement’s mausoleum, dressed in red Dior.
    — Gemma Askham, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Greg Fox brought his two daughters to see the mausoleum.
    — Sylvia Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2021
  • In town, the Olympic great's pink-marble mausoleum lures few tourists.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Next to the Basilica of San Francesco, a small mausoleum holds Dante’s bones.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Buster said King’s mausoleum was smeared with a gallon of black paint.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Vic starts to dial the police, so Joe brains him with a mausoleum vase.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The vault represents a tiny echo of the Lenin mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square.
    — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Inside the mausoleum, a small podium was set up along with 24 chairs in three rows.
    — CBS News, 9 June 2020
  • Slain rapper and singer XXXTentacion has been laid to rest in a large mausoleum.
    — Brett Clarkson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 July 2018
  • Rogers died of cancer in 2003 and is buried in the family mausoleum there.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Some scorn the aesthetic as that of a giant mausoleum: bleak and cold.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
  • If the ashes are deposited in an urn, will it be placed in a mausoleum?
    — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Hedges surround a sleek black tombstone and a gray mausoleum.
    — Sarah Hume, The Courier-Journal, 28 Nov. 2022
  • In the mausoleum, both his grandfather and his father lie in state.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Some are buried in the ground and covered with flowers while others are left at the center of vast mausoleums.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
  • Those looking to book their 50-minute tours in advance can do so through the mausoleum’s website.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Veil, widely admired in France, will become just the fifth woman laid to rest in the grand mausoleum.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 5 July 2017
  • The mausoleum is a private business in partnership with the city.
    — Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The giant Russian oven, a whitewashed brick mausoleum, took up most of the one-room cabin.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Pope Leo X hired Michelangelo to design and build the mausoleum.
    — New York Times, 30 May 2021
  • Work on the mausoleum atop a hill at the shrine had already begun when this latest change of mind was announced.
    — Farai Mutsaka, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
  • By the end of the game, Exactech Arena resembled a mausoleum.
    — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • So green burials do not use stones or mausoleums or crypts or anything like that.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The scene ends with the truck flying through a mausoleum, also made from Styrofoam blocks.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
  • She was cremated and her ashes were to be placed in a mausoleum at a later date.
    — Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • A number of the visitors to the mausoleum Sunday came with their children.
    — Sylvia Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2021
  • All guest rooms are built on the same side of the hotel so that everyone gets a front-row view of the renowned Mughal mausoleum, which is likely their entire reason for visiting Agra.
    — Claudia Fisher, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2024
  • Guest rooms are built exclusively on one side of the hallways so that each faces the Taj Mahal, offering every guest a private view of the legendary mausoleum.
    — Claudia Fisher, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2024

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