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Example sentences for: pillar

How can you use “pillar” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Marking the spot is a pillar commemorating the visit in 250 b.c. of the Indian emperor Ashoka, a zealous convert to Buddhism.
Worshippers will touch a pillar of the shrine or reach up to sound the bells hanging from the low roof.
Eight years and 746 pages later, he has, in Pillar of Fire , covered roughly 26 months, from the beginning of 1963 through early 1965.
The magnificent university city of Coimbra, the country’s capital during the 12th and 13th centuries, has been the pillar of Portuguese intellectual life since 1290.
Branch does place King at the center of his history, but Pillar of Fire is far too broad to be labeled a biography of one man.