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memorial - use in sentences
Converse of object
- erect: Does anyone have photo of the memorial erected in their memory?
- unveil: The Astronomer Royal, Sir Frank Dyson, unveiled the memorial, slightly later than planned, in February 1927.
Preposition: on
- grave: Memorials on graves, as we would understand them now, became popular after the Restoration in the 17th Century.
Adjective modifier
- 19thc: South wall: two windows; one 18th and two 19thC wall memorials.
- 20thc: South wall:- one splayed window with stained glass and a number of 19thC and 20thC memorials in stone and marble; one brass.
- everlasting: Improve your knowledge and help make the Fepow Story an everlasting memorial to their memory.
- lasting: Char's Fund will be the means by which we will build a lasting memorial to our daughter.
- 18thc: Apart from some 18thC memorials there are no features of pre-19thC interest internally.
- ww1: He died at the age of 28 and his name is on the St Michael's WW1 memorial.
Modifies a noun
- plaque: On the church wall is a memorial plaque to the crew of a Greek ship lost in a storm in the twenties.
- tablet: North wall: a marble memorial tablet of 1918 to the east of the window.
- mason: Your memorial mason should be able to offer you further advice.
- inscription: Skilled craftsmen and women execute the memorial inscriptions by hand.
- stone: Firstly, the memorial stone next to the entrance of the bunker.
- bench: Click on the thumbnail to see the memorial bench at Phil's old primary school.
Noun used with modifier
- marble: North wall: a marble memorial tablet of 1918 to the east of the window.
- war: We plan to relocate the war memorial in front of the new building.
- granite: A granite memorial to these groups stands at the end of the former main runway.
- roadside: With the passing of seven decades, the roadside memorial made of stone quarried at Verdun, had developed a dangerous list.
- churchyard: It contains a good range of 18thC and even earlier churchyard memorials and a 17thC lychgate.
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