Sentence examples for great columns of from inspiring English sources
You could see the great columns of people moving towards Balakot long before you reached the ruined town.
On television, the battle against the enormous wildfires of Southern California has looked this way: aircraft spewing water and retardant, firefighters and residents frantically dousing a burning home, great columns of orange on the march.
Anyone who has ever stood on a station platform knows that a piston effect drives great columns of air ahead of a train moving through a tunnel, and also draws a gust behind it.
The Armenians were branded as an enemy within by the Ottoman government, which used the cover of the first world war to systematically dispose of more than 1 million people, forcing great columns of humanity to march off into the Syrian desert to die of heat, starvation and disease.
Sometimes, we are lost in the cloud (just as we are lost for words) and in a sublime meteorological event, then we are homing in on huge battleships tossed vertically in the upsurge of a great column of 2m tons of water, rising in an instant over a mile and a half into the sky.
Frustrating for the occupant, perhaps, but from the street, such narrow spacing of these great columns gave the towers the striking appearance of seamless blocks of solid metal.
The Hudson-Fulton Celebration took place in the fall of 1909, with a naval procession led by replicas of the Clermont and Hudson's ship the Half Moon to a temporary water gate, really just two great columns, at the foot of 110th Street.
But the best Gonzo nugget of the day may have come from Steve Politi of the Star Ledger, who had a great column about the unusual friendship of Gonzalez and the former New Jersey Governor Richard Codey, who is a Seton Hall superfan.
In Trafalgar Square we thronged at the foot of Lord Nelson's great column, watching events on a big screen as the procession made its way towards us.
Any one of them would have made a great column – but all falling together?
To the Editor: Great column, thanks.
