PILLAR in a Sentence
Learn PILLAR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
77 example sentences for PILLAR, such as:
1. She is a pillar of strength in a crisis.
2. The pillar obstructed our view of the stage.
3. Eight massive stone pillars supported the roof.
4. The poor kid has been pushed from pillar to post.
5. The pillars couldn't support the weight of the roof.
2. The pillar obstructed our view of the stage.
3. Eight massive stone pillars supported the roof.
4. The poor kid has been pushed from pillar to post.
5. The pillars couldn't support the weight of the roof.
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Meanings and Examples of PILLAR
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pillar
n. a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
n. (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1 Mother had always been just as she was, a pillar of strength, a fount of wisdom, the one person who knew the answers to everything.
2 She pounded her clenched fist against the tall white pillar beside her, and she wished that she were Samson, so that she could pull down all of Twelve Oaks and destroy every person in it.
3 She sprawled back against a pillar of the porch and with a shaking hand unbuttoned her basque halfway down her bosom.
4 She lay back against the pillar in silence and Prissy, aware of her mood, tiptoed away into the darkness of the porch.
5 He was a "floorsman" at Jones's, and a wounded steer had broken loose and mashed him against a pillar.
6 Then he was forced to acknowledge that he could not go on without fainting; it almost broke his heart to do it, and he stood leaning against a pillar and weeping like a child.
7 Jurgis shrank back appalled, for he thought it was an accident; there fell a pillar of white flame, dazzling as the sun, swishing like a huge tree falling in the forest.
8 Turning like a headed deer, he shot, with the swiftness of an arrow, through a pillar of forked flame, and passing the whole multitude harmless, he appeared on the opposite side of the clearing.
9 We just get fired around from pillar to post and get licked here and get licked there, and nobody knows what it's done for.
10 He wanted to see her, not against the tea urn, but with her glass green eyes and thick body, the neck was broad as a pillar, against an arum lily or a vine.
11 One towel passed round the throat and was secured at the back of the pillar.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
Context Highlight In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
12 They seemed distressed to find me, my arm against the overturned pillar, peering down the well.
13 Cranly, leaning against a pillar, was picking his teeth with a sharpened match, listening to some companions.
14 He began to beat the frayed end of his ashplant against the base of a pillar.
15 Temple sat on the pediment of a pillar, leaning back, his cap pulled down on his sleepy eyes.
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 The administration of jusice is the firmest pillar of government.
2 The pillar obstructed our view of the stage.
3 This pillar is a monument to all those who died in the civil war.
4 Mr Fitzwilliam had been seen as a pillar of the community.
5 She is a pillar of strength in a crisis.
6 The poor kid has been pushed from pillar to post.
7 It is a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: whitewashed, I suppose, to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness.
8 I leant against a pillar of the verandah, drew my grey mantle close about me, and, trying to forget the cold which nipped me without, and the unsatisfied hunger which gnawed me within.
9 I leant against a pillar of the verandah, drew my grey mantle close about me, and, trying to forget the cold which nipped me without, and the unsatisfied hunger which began to gnaw me within.
10 One of the pillars of a civilized society must be that everyone has equal access to the legal system.
11 One of the pillars of society must be that everyone has access to the legal system.
12 The pillars couldn't support the weight of the roof.
13 The roof of the church was supported by stone pillars.
14 Eight massive stone pillars supported the roof.
15 The roof is supported by eight massive stone pillars.