Example sentences for: pillars

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

  • Nearly every exposed portion of its beams, panels, and pillars is decorated with a painted scene from Chinese myth, history, literature, or geography — 10,000 brightly painted panels in all.

  • Blessed are the meek, for they shall be given safe seats behind the pillars.

  • Huge sections of their daily lives (and particularly why they came to abandon their cities) are still shrouded in mystery, but great strides have been made in deciphering their hieroglyphs and stelae (inscribed stone pillars).

  • A dramatic main portal leads into the church, which boasts two inspired elements of decoration: 17th-century azulejos on the walls, and stone pillars like twisted strands of clay, fragile-looking in spite of their obviously solid dimensions.

  • In the second quad, the colossal pillars of the Widener Library face across the green to the Memorial Church, which has an elegant white spire peeping out above the foliage.


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