(n.) A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.
Example Sentences:
(1) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
(2) Iran: 12 dead as Islamic State claims attacks on parliament and shrine Read more The mausoleum where Khomeini was laid to rest almost exactly 28 years ago, on 6 June 1989, is an enormous complex dominating the skyline south of Tehran.
(3) Inside the mausoleum, Cadorna is watched over by 12 statues of soldiers cut from the stone of the Val d'Ossola.
(4) Some startlingly grand privately owned buildings have repeatedly appeared on the annual register of the most important listed buildings at risk – virtually all the HHA properties are listed, and many are also scheduled ancient monuments or set in grade I gardens – including garden buildings and follies at Castle Howard in Yorkshire and Frogmore mausoleum, which holds some of the Queen's ancestors, in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
(5) Other projects have included Angola’s Agostino Neto Mausoleum , which is reported to have cost $55m, and two statues of Robert Mugabe thought to have cost Zimbabwe $5m.
(6) The prime minister bowed her head in respect after laying a large red and white wreath – the colours of Turkey’s flag – before Atatürk’s sarcophagus inside the imposing mausoleum on a hill in the centre of Ankara.
(7) His mausoleum stands in the square; his 4.6 metres (15ft) by 3.7 metres portrait hangs from the gate.
(8) There are inevitable differences of opinion about how best to commemorate the Soviet occupation; Grutas Park in particular has attracted criticism for creating a shrine to communism, rather than a mausoleum for it.
(9) It has a prehistoric, mausoleum kind of quality, its entrance marked with a ghost tree of empty bottles.
(10) We also want to try to improve their living conditions: through our activities we are able to create 140 jobs just in the reconstruction of the mausoleums, then you can add the mosques and the rest.” However, funds for the rebuilding are short.
(11) Fourteen mausoleums destroyed in 2012 have since been restored by the United Nations.
(12) It tackles various instances across three periods in the 20th-century when history has been called on to construct a heroic Persian identity – such as from 1925 to 1941, under the Pahlavi dynasty, when monumental mausoleums drew on ancient forms to honour historic national heroes, while simultaneously using the formal language of modern construction to project into the future.
(13) After staying up all night on Friday, he will put it on and make his way to Garang's mausoleum, where the independence ceremony will occur.
(14) Spain to make first exhumations from civil war mausoleum Read more The Fossar is relatively inaccessible from the city.
(15) The village in which he had been born was graced with a palace, and it was ordained that he should be buried in the nearby family mausoleum, echoing the royal custom of hilltop interment.
(16) Beyond that the similarities end, since Macrinus did not fall out with the emperor's son nor become a gladiator but died a rich man, honoured by his massive mausoleum.
(17) I have my personal favorites such as the Saad Zaghloul Mausoleum but again this is the architect in me talking.
(18) Their remembrance was perpetuated by the building of a mausoleum on which the lying image of the decreased ("le gisant") was chiselled.
(19) He is charged in the destruction of 10 historic buildings including mausoleums and a mosque in Timbuktu.
(20) Islamic radicals who overran Timbuktu in 2012 destroyed 14 of the city’s 16 mausoleums, one-room structures that house the tombs of the city’s great thinkers.
Room
Definition:
(n.) Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room.
(n.) A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.
(n.) Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.
(n.) Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated.
(n.) Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.
(v. i.) To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.
(a.) Spacious; roomy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
(2) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(3) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
(4) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(5) Physicians working in the emergency room gained 14.7% during that time of day the PNP was present.
(6) Pharmaceutical services were provided from a large tent near the hospital, which consisted of an emergency treatment facility, two operating rooms, and a small medical-surgical ward.
(7) Of the other patients, four panicked with sodium lactate, none with 5% CO2, and one with room air hyperventilation.
(8) Photolysis of the photosystem I particles induces a progressive depletion of phylloquinone, however, photochemistry as assayed at room temperature by the photooxidation of P-700 is unaffected.
(9) The measurements were carried out in rooms of houses in Southern Germany with radon activity concentrations in the range of 150-900 Bqm-3.
(10) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
(11) With Air Sentinels in the bedroom and living room for airborne collections, and a Sample Vac for collections from living room carpet and bedroom mattress, immunochemical quantifications of each were made with various radiometric assays with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
(12) Will the rate of late (four to five years) wound infection after operations done in a clean-air enclosure be lower than that after procedures done in a "normal" operating-room environment using preoperative, operative, and postoperative antibiotics?
(13) By using an interactive computer program to assess knowledge of the American Cancer Society cancer screening guidelines in a group of 306 family physicians, we found that knowledge of this subject continues to leave room for improvement.
(14) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
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(16) I can't think of a single room in the building that isn't used."
(17) The article reflects the experience in the work of the manual therapy consulting-room at the Smela town hospital named after N. A. Semashko in Chernigov Province from November 1985 to December 1987 inclusive.
(18) This study investigates the photoneutron field found in medical accelerator rooms with primary barriers constructed of metal slabs plus concrete.
(19) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
(20) George Osborne’s eighth budget is unlikely to be a radical affair , as the state of the public finances and the upcoming EU referendum limit the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre.