Sentence examples for like pillars from inspiring English sources

And there they stand, sternly frozen in facing profile, like pillars in some temple to the histrionic arts.

As little respect as teachers sometimes get these days, they're still expected to act like pillars of the community.

On the previous day's flight, Fernández had spotted something on the valley floor that looked like pillars; next to it was a geometric shape covered with vegetation.

Many shops also use a non-computer-driven ice lathe, controlled by mechanical templates, for carving round items like pillars, footballs and crystal balls.

This is not the game's fault; it is mine and it means finishing a game like Pillars of Eternity takes a lot of time.

The robots, called Mobile Virtual Players, or M.V.P.s, stand just under six feet tall, weigh a hundred and ninety pounds, and look like pillars of black foam.

Other attractions: The Royal Oasis Leisure Club, with freeform pool and grotto-like pillars.

Inside its dark, Art Nouveau-ish space, decorated with glittery mirrored tiles and Gaudi-like pillars, I swirled my "fettuccine" around a fork, wondering how in the world the chef had managed to craft something that looked exactly like Italian noodles from strips of a corn tortilla.

The absorption of spike structured silicon wafer reaches 94%, which is much higher than that of other structures such as penguin-like, pillars and pyramids, even the absorption of a flat silicon wafer is only 65%.

It uses 4 feet-wide stilt-like pillars that were drilled beneath the building.

In some places the wind has carved holes or arches and in others it has created mushroom-like pillars narrower at the base than the top.