How to Use landmark in a Sentence

landmark

noun
  • The moon landing is a landmark in space exploration.
  • The decision was a landmark in legal history.
  • The battlefield is a national historical landmark.
  • High school teams in the area were even known as the Kilowatts, in a nod to the landmark.
    Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Namath did not throw a pass in the fourth quarter of the landmark game.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The landmark Naples Pier was torn apart in some sections.
    Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Here are some of our favorite facts and secrets about the Irish landmark.
    Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The move was part of a landmark agreement with the United Kingdom.
    Tamara Qiblawi and Zeena Saifi, CNN, 15 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The City of Lights and its many world-famous landmarks will take center stage at this year’s Games.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 26 July 2024
  • To attempt to find a landmark, the captain ordered the ship to take a course that would bring it nearer to shore.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Here is a woman who is one half of a landmark, era-defining rock band.
    Melissa Giannini, ELLE, 1 June 2023
  • Keep trying to make the place more of a landmark tourist detraction.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Immigrant Dreams: Our landmark poll surveys the lives of one-sixth of the nation.
    Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Fort Lauderdale’s dive tower, one of the tallest in the world, has quickly become a landmark.
    Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Many of Boston’s streets, parks, and landmarks are named after white men.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Housed inside the landmark De Vinne Press Building, the store is sprawling.
    Oset Babür-Winter, Curbed, 8 Nov. 2024
  • The most Instagrammable chapel in L.A. is now a historic landmark.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Ten years later, the ornate old landmark met the wrecking ball..
    Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Over the course of 2021, beginning in earnest with the landmark Beeple sale, a frenzy of buying and selling drove the prices of NFTs sky high.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The prices won't take effect until 2026, but the measure is a landmark for Medicare.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • And in 2018 the building was considered a historic landmark by the City of Cleveland.
    Megan Sims, cleveland, 27 July 2022
  • Here’s what visitors can expect from the first-of-its-kind landmark.
    Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 June 2024
  • April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the day this landmark report was published ...
    Connor Boyack, National Review, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The landmark ruling means that a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female should not be considered a woman for equality purposes.
    Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025

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