Sentence examples for column of dark from inspiring English sources

Vashti appears as a floating column of dark cloth, and an embodiment of grace and exhaustion.

Soldiers started firing automatic rifles in the air after the explosion sent a dense column of dark smoke into the air at 1.30pm in front of a large military post called JTF Sector 4. A nearby vehicle also burst into flames.

In the early hours of last Wednesday, I discovered the answer to a question I have long asked myself about violence – what it feels like to run from where you live because you are afraid – when arsonists torched the council depot behind my house, and my wife and I were woken by the sound of gas canisters exploding, a column of dark smoke glittering with orange flame rising above our home.

We bounce above the waves towards a column of dark smoke on the horizon, it is the Bille 2 Awoba Flowstation.

The pair joined them on their walk back to the city as gunfire rattled and mortar shells landed ahead of them, a column of dark smoke filling the sky.

At 07:15 UTC on 14 November 1963, the cook of Ísleifur II, a trawler sailing these same waters spotted a rising column of dark smoke southwest of the boat.

I wore columns of dark color; I obsessed over hemlines to have them at that perfect point to make my leg look long and lean; I invested in many wide elastic belts, which were worn just below the rib cage to not only make my legs look longer, but to give the appearance that I had a smaller waist.

The interior is cavernous, with its 20-foot-tall columns of dark wood, yet it's easy to have an intimate martini or cigar at the bar.

Empire in style, the Waldorf's restaurant feathered columns of dark-green marble, and the pilasters that came opposite them were of mahogany, with ormolu work in the panels.

On the women's side, the dresses were far more sophisticated than in the Paris Hilton pink of the girly era — say a simple column of lace or dark red flowers tucked under a tailored coat.

BUSINESS DAY A picture caption on Tuesday with the Advertising column, about the mix of dark dramas and madcap comedies to be introduced for the fall television season, misidentified, in some editions, the actress shown in a scene from "Nashville," a country music soap drama from ABC.