How to Use monolithic in a Sentence
monolithic
adjective-
And Black folks are not one monolithic group.
—Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2025
-
Pew is careful to note that these two groups are not monolithic.
—Chris Cillizza, CNN, 10 Nov. 2021
-
One of my goals was to show that Black women are not monolithic.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2023
-
The party is not as monolithic as myth would have it, either.
—The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018
-
Take special note of the beef rib, a monolithic slab of meat and fat big enough to feed three, and feed them well.
—Malcolm Mayhew, star-telegram, 27 July 2017
-
Vaccine resisters have been around a long time, and are hardly a monolithic group.
—Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 17 Sep. 2021
-
And the darkness is no longer monolithic, but swirls with shades of black and a parade of textures.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 26 Mar. 2024
-
Movements like populism, which want to make culture this monolithic gray thing, are so scary.
—Anthony Byrt, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
-
To be sure, women cannot be grouped together as a monolithic set of consumers.
—Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 8 July 2019
-
The large kitchen features monolithic-style islands, counters and a bar.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2022
-
They’re supposed to feel monolithic.
—Keaton Bell, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2025
-
Of course, the industry isn’t monolithic and thus strategies vary.
—Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2018
-
On top of that, neither the recording nor the publishing side is monolithic.
—Richard James Burgess, Billboard, 16 Apr. 2018
-
Black maxiskirts have many amazing qualities, but their one flaw is in their monolithic nature.
—Kelsey Stiegman, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2025
-
The abode is positioned on a cul-de-sac and tucked behind a gate, kind of like a modern, monolithic fortress.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2024
-
But in the cloud, the monolithic network perimeter is no longer relevant.
—John Grange, Forbes, 20 May 2021
-
Democrats are monolithic sheep that follow the Fuhrer Schumer’s orders.
—J.d. Davidson | The Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 4 Apr. 2025
-
But this monolithic view of the mind leads to the Socratic view of addiction.
—Brendan De Kenessey, Vox, 16 Mar. 2018
-
The church likes to present itself as monolithic, but in the religion’s brief lifetime, many sects have broken off.
—Sarah Scoles, Longreads, 8 June 2018
-
The monolithic sandstone formations line the foothills on the west side of Boulder.
—Lauren Beale, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
-
For the non-connoisseur, chocolate tends to be thought of as a monolithic flavor, Hack said.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
-
Schmalz emphasized that the Catholic Right isn’t monolithic.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
-
While the roots of these Jewish cookbooks may come from the same tree, the category is not monolithic.
—Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appétit, 20 Dec. 2022
-
The park is bounded by two monolithic forces that made the slave trade in the United States possible.
—Kyle Gassiott, NPR, 22 Apr. 2024
-
In the Wyoming home, pine paneling was replaced with earthen plaster; the hearth is a monolithic stone slab.
—Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
-
There was criticism in New York that the play’s vision of gay culture was monolithic.
—Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2022
-
Single-region, monolithic systems won’t cut it.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
-
And the upside could be significant to those looking to break out of the monolithic stereotypes assigned to their races.
—Esther J. Cepeda, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2017
-
The film helped cement the image of the Black Church as something that was small and southern, and in many ways monolithic.
—Erica Armstrong Dunbar, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
-
In Serra’s view, that monolithic logic was precisely what made his work sculptural.
—Julian Rose, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026
Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'monolithic.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Last Updated:
