pillar - use in sentences
Object
- portico: Sedan chairs, escorted by servants bearing flambeaux, deposited their occupants within the pillared portico.
Converse of object
- carve: Inside the lower hall, the original front door is still there, complete with the carved stone pillars.
- erect: The old form of gateway used to be made by erecting two granite pillars either side of the required entrance.
Converse of subject
- flank: The central doorway on the east front is flanked by Tuscan pillars against a rusticated surround and has a pediment above.
Adjective modifier
- trig: Surprisingly, there is no trig pillar, just a simple cairn.
- octagonal: The aisle is separated from the nave by five large bays, resting on octagonal pillars.
- Corinthian: There is an impressive entrance with two Corinthian pillars.
- fluted: Grinling Gibbons decorated the interior with carved panels, graceful fluted Corinthian pillars, friezes and statues.
- slender: It's a huge, handsome building with a central ring of slender iron pillars supporting a pointed roof.
- cast-iron: The interior of the mill has stone-flagged floors supported by Victorian cast-iron pillars and low brick arches with iron hoops.
Modifies a noun
- drill: The triangular area is where I could not reach with the pillar drill!
- candle: Moving to the side table, he lit the pillar candles arranged there.
Noun used with modifier
- triangulation: A grassy rake cuts across the fractured eastern face to emerge just below the triangulation pillar.
- windscreen: A Golf with deeper flanks, a steeper bonnet pulled up by the windscreen pillars.
- marble: The hall of the house is impressive with two marble pillars giving an instant impression of grandeur.
- granite: The old form of gateway used to be made by erecting two granite pillars either side of the required entrance.
- basalt: Like Solomon's in Layout The two basalt pillars in the porch had no structural purpose.
- sandstone: The most distinguishable of the circles consists of three upright red sandstone pillars, the tallest of which is just over 18 feet high.
Preposition: of
- cloud: That is the modern day iconic pillar of cloud.
- salt: Not that pillar of salt, in mind, in which five years ago you fixed our fears of looking behind.
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