Sentence examples for pillar topped from inspiring English sources

Stationed before them – the field marshal commanding his troops – stands a stone pillar topped with a pale sphere.

Outside Norwich, a huge pillar, topped by an ovoid urn, suddenly came into view, in a field by the side of the road.

The Martyr's Memorial in Shadian, China, is a gray pillar topped with a crescent moon, set on a stone block engraved with names.

The rectangular case is topped by a scroll broken in the centre by an ornament such as an urn; on either side of the case is a vertical pillar topped by the same kind of ornament that breaks the scroll.

Sit back, order a Lecce specialty called caffè in ghiaccio con latte di mandorla (espresso with ice and almond milk) and admire the majestic stone Sedile — a former town hall and armory built in the late 16th century — and the soaring stone pillar topped by a statue of the city's patron saint, St. Oronzo, from the Baroque period.

The most striking: a 90-foot Tennessee marble pillar topped with a bronze statue of General Robert E. Lee, dedicated during the 1884 Carnival season.

Stone pillars topped either with ram's heads, stylized animal forms, or human figures have also been discovered.

Now workers ensure structures, with their flower-shaped arches and towering pillars topped with giant leaves, aren't reclaimed by the ever-encroaching jungle foliage.

On this return trip, on a line of pillars topped by bas reliefs showing the faces of gods, there were signs of even more recent vandalism, and a spray-painted message on the stone wall condemning idol worship.

The museum has a magnificent collection of carved pillar tops, among the most important in Europe, showing how rich the lost buildings were.

The individual nanotubes or nanotube bundles growing from the pillar tops were observed in C 1s images.