Sentence examples for marble cylinders from inspiring English sources
Molo gets its marble cylinders from Italy, and Mr. MacAllen created the shade as a "cappello," which is Italian for hat or cap.
Mr. Franklin said he believed that the gallery and the museum knew enough about both the marble head and the cylinder to be confident that they had not been illicitly taken.
If dropped into an empty cylinder, the marble took about a quarter-second to hit bottom, which roughly matched the theoretical prediction: Distance (one foot) = ½ × gravitational acceleration (32 feet per second per second) × the square of the elapsed time (one quarter × one quarter = one sixteenth).
Preminger's desk consists of a long, rectangular slab of white marble resting on two brushed-aluminum cylinders, and it stands with its back to a row of windows.
A corner floor piece of tightly packed small cylinders made of Italian marble and travertine in various hues, their tops sawed off at different angles, it is concerned with the group and the individual.
When my daughter put the marble into the cylinder full of corn syrup, she expected the drop time to increase by a few seconds.
When the cylinder was full of water, though, the marble took about half a second to reach the bottom.
Works include self-referential postcards, razor-blade-studded ceramic cylinders, a gold wedding ring embedded in a marble mantelpiece and an installation that intensifies the hygienic effect of the gallery as white cube.
