CYLINDER in a Sentence
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17 example sentences for CYLINDER, such as:
1. It was the clank of the levers and the swish of the leaking cylinder.
2. Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore.
3. I saw an armored protective cylinder around a revolving gun turret on that warship.
4. He picked up and inspected a large semi cylinder of the thin white bark of a sycamore.
5. Then, with a cry of satisfaction, he bent forward and picked up a little brazen cylinder.
2. Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore.
3. I saw an armored protective cylinder around a revolving gun turret on that warship.
4. He picked up and inspected a large semi cylinder of the thin white bark of a sycamore.
5. Then, with a cry of satisfaction, he bent forward and picked up a little brazen cylinder.
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Meanings and Examples of CYLINDER
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cylinder
n. a chamber within which piston moves
n. a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line
Classic Sentence:
1 It was the clank of the levers and the swish of the leaking cylinder.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
2 He had picked from a drawer a little tarnished cylinder, and, undoing the tape, he handed me a short note scrawled upon a half-sheet of slate-grey paper.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
Context Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
3 Across the centre of it was lying a little cylinder of blue-grey paper.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
4 Then, with a cry of satisfaction, he bent forward and picked up a little brazen cylinder.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
5 He came out of the pawn-office joyfully, making a little cylinder, of the coins between his thumb and fingers.
6 She's no use: I've got all the records I want of the Lisson Grove lingo; and I'm not going to waste another cylinder on it.
7 It is hooped round with a hollow cylinder of adamant, four feet yards in diameter, placed horizontally, and supported by eight adamantine feet, each six yards high.
8 On leaning over, the eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up mass of shadows.
9 I think that the cylinders which you gave me contained more than you intended me to know; but I can see that there are in your record many lights to this dark mystery.
10 All the manuscript had been burned, and the blue flames were flickering amongst the white ashes; the cylinders of your phonograph too were thrown on the fire, and the wax had helped the flames.
11 But I had not much time to give him, because I was helping the engine-driver to take to pieces the leaky cylinders, to straighten a bent connecting-rod, and in other such matters.
12 The servants cut our bread into cones, cylinders, parallelograms, and several other mathematical figures.
13 Guess the cylinders are jam-cram-full of carbon again.
Example Sentence:
1 He picked up and inspected a large semi cylinder of the thin white bark of a sycamore.
2 I saw an armored protective cylinder around a revolving gun turret on that warship.
3 I knew at once by the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders.
4 Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore.