cylinder
Example Sentences
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Financial stocks as a whole are firing on nearly all cylinders however.
From Barron's
Cisco is a “winder” at Hitachi Energy’s transformer factory in southern Virginia where she twists wire by hand around a giant cylinder.
McCarthy is a comedic national treasure and when she’s allowed to fire on all cylinders on “SNL,” as she was in a few of the night’s sketches, there’s nothing like it.
From Los Angeles Times
Police believe a gas cylinder exploded in the club's kitchen causing the blaze to rip through the venue at midnight on Saturday, local time.
From BBC
Its tumble of white plaster forms — cubes, cylinders, sweeping curves — seem to freeze mid-collision, as if the gallery had been torn apart by seismic forces.
From Los Angeles Times
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