Sentence examples for a huge pillar from inspiring English sources

Outside Norwich, a huge pillar, topped by an ovoid urn, suddenly came into view, in a field by the side of the road.

On Thursday, a pipeline carrying oil to a refinery in Homs was blown up, casting a huge pillar of black smoke over the city.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A pipeline carrying oil to a refinery in the tense Syrian city of Homs was blown up Thursday, activists and the official Syrian news agency said, casting a huge pillar of black smoke over the city's cloudy horizon.

As the employee – perched on a stool under a sign that reads "The Witch Is In" – starts to carve intricate symbols into a huge pillar candle for the businessman, shop owner Stacy Rapp, enters in a whirlwind.

Last night, as darkness fell and the lights went out in businesses and households across Britain in remembrance of the outbreak of the first world war, a huge pillar of white light pierced the night sky above London, its brightness so intense that it could be seen over 12 miles away.

You've always been a huge pillar of integrity.

He also admired Simeon Stylites, a Christian ascetic in fifth-century Syria who spent almost 40 years living atop a huge stone pillar, despite frequent entreaties to come down and not a few doubts about his motives.

In Peter Martins's new romantic ballet, "Morgen," a man often lurks behind one of five huge pillars as a woman glides in and out among them.

"The high ceilings, huge pillars, great austere spaces for greeting, and vast meetings rooms" are "awesome," he wrote.

Brazilian construction companies began building the subway's huge pillars of reinforced concrete, designed for commuter trains imported from Asia, in 1997.

Huge pillars came out of the floor during Sochi's War and Peace ballroom scene just as Boyle's chimney stacks rose into the Stratford air.