pillars
Example Sentences
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By carefully choosing the size and spacing of these pillars, the team caused light to remain inside the meta-surface slightly longer and circulate within it instead of simply passing straight through.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
"It sits almost like a spaceship inside this extraordinary great Victorian Hall with all the pillars so already you have this tension," said Selina Cartmell, the theatre's creative director.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
In her own court filing, the staffer described how the center had been blocked off by gates and witnessed how a forklift had "run into and hit the pillars on the building several times."
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Just as important was the understanding that the right team would serve as one of its defining structural pillars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
In the crazily veering flashes of light, Chess saw dozens of other guards step out from behind the pillars and push the crowd back.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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