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/ˈstoʊnˌhɛndʒ/
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NOUN
- an ancient megalithic monument in southern England; probably used for ritual purposes
How To Use Stonehenge In A Sentence
- Begun in about 3100 B.C. and altered during the next two millennia, Stonehenge incorporates outsize monoliths quarried far from its site on Salisbury Plain in southern England.
- The circle of stones at Stonehenge is thought to have originally been a temple.
- Stonehenge is one of the world's best known monuments of the ancient times.
- The ditch around Stonehenge would have been dug using animal bones and deer antlers to loosen the underlying chalk.
- Who wants to listen to ‘Stairway to Heaven’ for that silly hippies-in-Stonehenge twaddle about bustling hedgerows?
- Read in studio Stone circles like Stonehenge attract thousands of visitors each year drawn by the excitement of the ancient and unknown.
- Stonehenge is perhaps the most famous prehistoric monument in the world. Times, Sunday Times
- Ironically, it is the newly-paved and sprawling five-lane thoroughfares clogged with sightseeing families and truckers laded down with ever more consumer items to choke our landfills, that has over the decades made Cadillac Ranch the Texan Stonehenge for sight-seers and graffiti enthusiasts eager to leave their mark of existence. G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That
- Meanwhile, there is strong evidence that humans erected Stonehenge, just like humans have erected many other lithic monuments. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead, Parker Pearson said in a statement. Science Project