Sentence examples for vertical pillar from inspiring English sources

We downed strong coffee and set off for a vertical pillar of limestone shrouded in trees, called Big Knob.

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.

Meton worked with another Athenian astronomer, Euctemon, and made a series of observations of the solstices, when the Sun's noonday shadow cast by a vertical pillar, or gnomon, reaches its annual maximum or minimum, to determine the length of the tropical year.

The conductivity factor reaches its maximum value when vertical pillar spacing is equal to horizontal spacing.

The shrines typically "took the form of a vertical pillar topped by the bearded head of a man and from the surface of the pillar below the head, an erect phallus protruded".

They also lacked vertical pillars for support.

On the test model, the stainless-steel dashboard was framed by two vertical pillars of cherry wood that appeared to pass through a horizontal bolster of light leather.

On both islands, the rocky summits of giant, extinct volcanoes rise steeply from the sea and are dotted with extraordinary vertical pillars reaching hundreds of metres into the clouds.

Box has a plan to keep growing and it involves building vertical pillars on top of the base Box platform and APIs.

Vertical pillars were introduced in between the existing sinusoidal wave-like corrugations to improve the load bearing capacity of these structures.

Crack problems due to fatigue are evident in the areas of the bus structure closest to the rear door, being the joint between the side vertical pillars and the waist rail the most critical.