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Example sentences for "columns"

Lexicographically close words:
columellar; column; columnar; columned; columnist; colza; com; coma; comand; comandancia
  1. We are under no temptation to fill its columns with an account of what we hope future numbers will be.

  2. The suggestions in the following Paper are so extremely valuable, that we are not only pleased to give it insertion, but hope that our readers will take advantage of our columns to carry out Dr.

  3. It was framed by two stone columns and a stone arch.

  4. The columns of several pagan temples reminded the travelers that this lovely city was the home of Philip, the son of Herod the Great.

  5. The row of slender columns which enclosed the inner court was majestic in the afternoon sunlight.

  6. A series of articles written under this head, in the columns of the Dublin Penny Journal, by Mr. Pebrie, antiquarian high-priest to the Royal Irish Academy!

  7. Even now it was hardly believed that an attack would be made by the enemy so long as the French remained in their all but impregnable position; but presently the columns of the enemy were seen advancing.

  8. The other division, with the baggage and artillery, crossed lower down, at Cheadle, on a hastily constructed bridge, and the two columns joined that evening at Macclesfield.

  9. The English cavalry galloped back, but the columns of infantry still advanced until within half a mile of the French position, and were there halted, while some guns from the French lines opened fire.

  10. But no smoke columns showed against the green of the forest and they went on with lighter hearts.

  11. In every direction they searched again and again for telltale columns of smoke, but saw nothing.

  12. In the port column were destroyers, every vessel towing one or more coastal motor-boats, while between the columns were about fifty or sixty M.

  13. Shells were screeching and bursting everywhere, until the sea and sky seemed blotted out with smoke and far-flung columns of spray.

  14. By forcing their way down the Matz Valley at a prodigious cost the German columns had reached forward from Rassons to Marqueglise, Vandelicourt, and Elincourt, thus turning the wooded plateau of Thiescourt to the southwest.

  15. They followed, in columns of fours, a tape across no-man's-land laid out by leaders who had previously been over the ground.

  16. The columns of General von Hutier were now within a few miles of Estrees St. Denis and Compiegne, respectively, road and railway junctions of some importance.

  17. The Allies' aviators meanwhile, flying a few hundred feet overhead, were machine-gunning columns on the march and bombarding German batteries.

  18. Frank, pointing out some lights, which, glittering afar off, were reflected in long columns in the water.

  19. If any such persons were found, they should be requested to announce it through the columns of the Woman's Journal, and let the world know the fools wasent all dead yet.

  20. The flanking columns maintained themselves with difficulty until Terry came up.

  21. In the church of St Kosmas are preserved some of the archaic Doric columns of the famous temple of Aphrodite of Cythera, whose worship had been introduced from Syria, and ultimately spread over Greece.

  22. A structure composed of a circular range of columns without a core is cyclostylar; with a core the range would be peristyle.

  23. Of this magnificent building, sometimes ranked among the seven wonders of the ancient world, thirty-one immense columns still stood erect in 1444.

  24. Hand in hand they stood, seeing, by reason of the gloom, vastly little of the columns which have the strange shape of tent-poles; then walked warily and still hand in hand in and out of various and dilapidated chambers.

  25. As for those who don't, the advertisement columns of the Church Times, the Christian World, and other papers tell a pitiful story of their need.

  26. Scarcely a week passes but some journalist of the nobler sex pours out his scorn for the inferior one of his mother in columns of masterly abuse on one score or another.

  27. Our rude house was put together of clay; but the door-posts were columns of fluted marble found near the spot where the house was erected.

  28. Columns of smoke rose into the still air; it was a heath-fire, he was told, that shone so splendidly in the dark evening.

  29. No hostile tribes met them in their pathless route, no storms arose, no columns of sand whirled destruction over the journeying caravan.

  30. The English columns marched at a short distance apart so as to be able to give each other assistance in case of attack.

  31. These columns are made to put one in mind of the Alhambria, where we so often strayed with our friend Washington Irving.

  32. And then comes a labyrinth of columns and mirrors, and through 'em and round 'em and up overhead wuz splendor on splendor of orniment, gorgeousness on gorgeousness.

  33. And standin' up aginst the sky, and the blue waters of the lake, the tall ivory columns of the Perestyle stood, like a immense beautiful screen, to guard this White City of magic splendor.

  34. In all sorts of ways this hatred showed itself, in the diatribes of professors, in the pages of books, in the columns of the press.

  35. As a matter of fact the General Staff had got ahead of the diplomatists, and the German columns were already over the border while the point was being debated at Berlin.

  36. A few guns were hastily discharged, and then the men of the three Irish regiments in the town fled in haste, to avoid capture by the columns pouring across the river by the ford and pontoon bridge.

  37. And that's how I tackle my work each day-- With terror and fear and dread-- And all I can see is a long array Of empty columns ahead.

  38. To demonstrate its utter worthlessness, The Boston Star has copied the poem in full, with two or three columns of criticism (we suppose), by way of explaining that we should have been hanged for its perpetration.

  39. With the exception of the apse, which is purely Romanesque, the interior of this church is Gothic of the Transition; but most of the capitals of the pier-columns have a plain Romanesque outline.

  40. The apse is beautiful, with its five tall windows and its columns with Corinthian capitals in the intervening wall spaces.

  41. There is much grandeur in its vast, deeply-recessed Romanesque portal, with marble columns in the jambs and numerous archivolts.

  42. The east end, scarcely forming an apse, and pierced in the centre with a high broad window with a narrower window on each side, suggests this, as do also the very massive columns of the choir.

  43. The ground is strewn with fragments of immense columns and entire capitals, some Corinthian, others Tuscan.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "columns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.