Sentence examples for detached pillar from inspiring English sources
The Old Man of Hoy, a detached pillar of rock 450 feet (137 metres) high, is a famous landmark.
The touch of a dashboard button initiates a mechanical sequence as lovely as synchronized swimming: The decklid clamshells open, the rearmost pillars detach from the trailing edge of the roof, the roof folds in a V-pattern and the whole assembly disappears within 25 seconds, leaving a clean line from the headlamps to the taillights.
However, at a high etching temperature of 45 °C and a high HF concentration of 20 mol dm−3, the Au catalysts were detached from the tips of the GaAs pillars because the excess h+ generated by the relatively high temperature, even in the short etching time of 5 s, promoted the lateral etching of GaAs in the presence of the Au catalyst.
In contrast, in mael oocytes the pole plasm crescent seems to be detached from the cortex as a compact structure, with only few "pillars" connecting the crescent to the cortex.
Having survived both the Great Recession and the refugee crisis relatively unscratched, she will continue her unique politics of Merkelism, which The Economist's Jeremy Cliffe describes as consisting of three pillars: (1) ethical, not ideological; (2) reactive, not programmatic; and (3) detached, not engaged.
I felt completely detached.
