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Meanings of obelisk in English
Usage of obelisk in English
1
You sat silent as the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde.
2
If a pyramid or obelisk mould, lift it carefully off the top.
3
This obelisk was finished twenty centuries before the first Mehrikan was weaned.
4
Tanis and the others climbed onto the obelisk and joined the mage.
5
Where a great obelisk of rock thrust across the way, Hortense halted.
6
An obelisk of gray Canadian granite now stands on this historic ground.
7
The Apple launch was a predictably imperious, pristine obelisk of grasping capitalism.
8
No fewer than thirty-two expeditions were recorded on his famous black obelisk.
9
The obelisk was dazzling, the gold glittering, reflecting Re in his heavens.
10
Etched onto the obelisk are the distances to Parramatta, Liverpool and Windsor.
11
The Huayna Picchu peak towers behind it like a deep green obelisk.
12
There is an obelisk there, a single needle pointing into the sky.
13
She took her hands from my face and gestured at the obelisk.
14
Instantly a chorus of cries arose: Oh, she's bumped over the obelisk!
15
The Egyptians made the nearest approach to it in the obelisk.
16
Shive Tor had become a red-hot obelisk jutting straight up from the sea.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common