Cleopatra's Needle

noun

1. an ancient Egyptian obelisk, now in Central Park, New York City.

2. an ancient Egyptian obelisk, now on the Thames River embankment, in London.

Cleopatra's Needle

/ -ˈpɑː-, ˌkliːəˈpætrəz /

noun

1. either of two Egyptian obelisks, originally set up at Heliopolis about 1500 _bc : one was moved to the Thames Embankment, London, in 1878, the other to Central Park, New York, in 1880

Example Sentences

“I really don’t care, Mom,” I said after she finished telling the story about the kid who helped carve Cleopatra’s Needle.

Read more on Literature

Hundreds of men pulled Cleopatra’s Needle up the sand hill.

Read more on Literature

But apparently it is something none of us had even considered—Cleopatra’s Needle!

Read more on Literature

Cleopatra had built the temple, so people started calling it Cleopatra’s Needle even though she had died long before the obelisk arrived.

Read more on Literature

When they put the American flag up, we knew we had lost Cleopatra’s Needle.

Read more on Literature