PYRAMID in a Sentence
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22 example sentences for PYRAMID, such as:
1. On the palm were three little pyramids of black, doughy clay.
2. Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
3. The pyramids are a living monument to the skill of their builders.
4. Far away, above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible.
5. Since last century the spell of the pyramids has drawn tourists to Egypt.
2. Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
3. The pyramids are a living monument to the skill of their builders.
4. Far away, above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible.
5. Since last century the spell of the pyramids has drawn tourists to Egypt.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PYRAMID
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pyramid
n. a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex
v. arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.
2 He touched it once more, wishing us a good journey; and we left him standing on the pavement, as respectable a mystery as any pyramid in Egypt.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
3 While I was battering away at the pyramid, a sort of badger-haired old merman, with a hump on his back, takes me by the shoulders, and slews me round.
4 Seeing he wasn't going to stop saying over his 'wise Stubb, wise Stubb,' I thought I might as well fall to kicking the pyramid again.
5 The loads were all laid together, and a pyramid of furze thirty feet in circumference now occupied the crown of the tumulus, which was known as Rainbarrow for many miles round.
6 It was a small pyramid of black, putty-like stuff, exactly like the one upon the table of the study.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
7 Far away, above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible.
8 One store-building had a patchy galvanized iron cornice; the building beside it was crowned with battlements and pyramids of brick capped with blocks of red sandstone.
9 It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.
10 These are hieroglyphical; that is, if you call those mysterious cyphers on the walls of pyramids hieroglyphics, then that is the proper word to use in the present connexion.
11 These baskets contained four pyramids of most splendid fruit; there were Sicily pine-apples, pomegranates from Malaga, oranges from the Balearic Isles, peaches from France, and dates from Tunis.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
Context Highlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
12 But it was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings.
13 On the palm were three little pyramids of black, doughy clay.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
14 Beyond the lawn, with its pyramidal pale-gold maples and velvety firs, sloped pastures dotted with cattle; and through a long glade the river widened like a lake under the silver light of September.
15 The Indian had selected for this desirable purpose one of those steep, pyramidal hills, which bear a strong resemblance to artificial mounds, and which so frequently occur in the valleys of America.
Example Sentence:
1 Half a million guns and more than 800 million rounds of ammunition were looted in 1997, when thousands of Albanians, furious over losing their life savings in fraudulent pyramid investment schemes, stormed army barracks.
2 All around the pyramids, salespeople were doing a roaring trade in souvenirs.
3 Since last century the spell of the pyramids has drawn tourists to Egypt.
4 The pyramids are a living monument to the skill of their builders.
5 Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.