How to Use landmark in a Sentence

landmark

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  • The moon landing is a landmark in space exploration.
  • The decision was a landmark in legal history.
  • The battlefield is a national historical landmark.
  • The Golden Gate Bridge is a famous landmark in San Francisco.
  • Hot pink runs through the middle, while doodles and landmarks fill the background.
    — Donna St. George, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The landmark structure’s age has been showing for years.
    — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • One of the town’s cherished landmarks is still standing: a 150-year-old banyan tree on Front Street.
    — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The landmark findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 27 July 2023
  • Here is a woman who is one half of a landmark, era-defining rock band.
    — Melissa Giannini, ELLE, 1 June 2023
  • Immigrant Dreams: Our landmark poll surveys the lives of one-sixth of the nation.
    — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The most Instagrammable chapel in L.A. is now a historic landmark.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • But the closest city in the entire world to that aqueous landmark is Tema, Ghana — where my mother grew up.
    — Emefa Addo Agawu, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The network settled the landmark defamation case for $787.5 million in April.
    — J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • There is a lot of confusion surrounding the landmark status of the Walk of Fame, Correia said.
    — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The case had been closely watched for its potential to weaken the landmark voting rights law.
    — Mark Sherman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2023
  • The banner is working with Netflix and has a landmark series in the pipeline with Channel 4.
    — Tara Conlan, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Sometimes, the three of us would wander to specific landmarks in the park—the stables to see the horses, the great beech tree, the rocky patch of land by the creek where people bring their dogs to play.
    — Dayna Evans, ELLE, 14 July 2023
  • To undo landmark rulings like Roe, his movement would need to make sure the court heard the right cases brought by the right people and heard by the right lower court judges.
    — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Last month, a judge ruled in their favor in a landmark decision that also found the state was complicit in the problem.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The building was designated a city landmark in 1993, and is now called Courthouse Place.
    — David Owen, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The town of Lahaina on the island of Maui has suffered widespread damage, and historic landmarks across the island are in danger.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • There have been many movies that broke records at the box office this year and the industry is all set for some more landmark scores at the ticket windows before the year ends.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • He’s seen every episode, knows every turn in the bloody histories of landmarks like Dover Castle and the Tower of London.
    — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The church served as a landmark for Charlotte’s Biddleville neighborhood.
    — Kendrick Marshall, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
  • In other words, the ants presumably needed some sort of landmark at the colony to ensure everyone could find it.
    — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 23 June 2023
  • The dig site is located near Wittenham Clumps, a landmark in the region owned by the charity Earth Trust.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The plan calls for North Harbor Drive to morph into a coastal landmark where the public realm is enhanced and expanded at the expense of car travel.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Both offer classic landmark views of the London skyline.
    — Stacey Wreathall, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Traditionally, this has been decided by the Howey test, named after a landmark case heard by the Supreme Court in 1946.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 June 2023
  • Google draws from a catalog of location data, landmarks, photos, and reviews that keep it ahead of the pack.
    — PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024

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