LANDMARK in a Sentence

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For LANDMARK, below is one of 15 sentences:
But this Peachtree Street she was looking upon was so denuded of landmarks it was as unfamiliar as if she had never seen it before.

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 Meanings and Examples of LANDMARK
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landmark
 n.  the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape; a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land
Classic Sentence:
1  She was sick in body and weary in mind and she was standing like a lost child in a nightmare country in which there was no familiar landmark to guide her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
2  This was the first town house one passed driving in from the farm, a landmark which told country people their long ride was over.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
3  Then Roland went away, and the girl stood like a red landmark in the field and waited for her beloved.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In SWEETHEART ROLAND
4  I had abundant occupation for my thoughts, in every conspicuous landmark on the road.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
5  But this Peachtree Street she was looking upon was so denuded of landmarks it was as unfamiliar as if she had never seen it before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  In a hundred nightmares, she had fled through fog like this, through a haunted country without landmarks, thick with cold cloaking mist, peopled with clutching ghosts and shadows.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
7  The wolves peered to make out landmarks, they touched gliding arms which did not seem to be attached to a body, they quivered with a rapture of fear.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  As Antonia said, the whole world was changed by the snow; we kept looking in vain for familiar landmarks.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
9  There are some landmarks,' observed Mr. Micawber, looking fondly back over his shoulder, 'on the road to the tomb, which, but for the impiety of the aspiration, a man would wish never to have passed.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
10  As I entered I saw, it is true, an unwonted tidiness, but the old landmarks were all in their place.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
Example Sentence:
1  There are efforts under way to designate the bridge a historic landmark.
2  The Ambassador Hotel is a Los Angeles landmark.
3  The gnarled oak tree had been a landmark for years and was mentioned in several deeds.
4  Polite and open—even in the face of dogged criticism like the pans his Terminator re-quel has been collecting—he revealed that he didn't come to truly appreciate James Cameron's landmark sci-fier until he got the call to direct Genisys.
5  The Rock of Gibraltar is one of Europe's most famous landmarks.