Sentence examples for thin columns from inspiring English sources
Its vaulted base, propped up on thin columns, evokes a generic government building from the 1960s.
They then applied a magnetic field which, thanks to cobalt's ferromagnetic nature, arranged the particles into thin columns.
Eric Lomax, a British P.O.W., remembers seeing "thin columns of Asians" that soon became a "flood, a tide of unhappy men".
Meanwhile the wax paintings, which here span from 1966 to 1972, give way to works like "Hoofers I" and "Hoofers II," thin columns of aluminum screening covered with cheesecloth dipped in plaster that she swabbed with glitter.
In this case, ground zero is left empty except for thin columns of smoke or steam that suddenly rise from its surface, as if leaking from some underground source.
Thus, in rapidly rotating systems such as planetary cores (where E≲10−12), it is often predicted that quasigeostrophic convection occurs as tall, thin columns (e.g., Kageyama et al. 2008; cf. Cheng et al. 2015).
A thin column of smoke soon rose from the mountainside.
Shaped like a thin column, the unit takes up little floor space, is relatively quiet and is easy to use.
Some minutes later, a thin column spouted thousands of yards upward into the atmosphere, its base obscured from view by the curvature of the planet.
It was built into what looked like a pipe chase: a thin column that jutted from the left wall, about five yards from the entrance.
Two hours after the attack, a thin column of smoke was still rising from behind the blast wall around the checkpoint, and trucks and cars were backed up for at least a mile in both directions.
