Used in a Sentence

pillars

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pillars.

Editorial note

That's one of the massive pillars that their reputation has been staked on for more than a century.

Examples19
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Something resembling such a structure.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pillars gathered in one view.

noun

Something resembling such a structure.

noun

The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.

noun

A surname.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pillars.

noun

Something resembling such a structure.

noun

The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.

noun

A surname.

noun

(architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture.

Example sentences

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That's one of the massive pillars that their reputation has been staked on for more than a century.

2

You don't extract 15 tons pillars, carve them and move them atop a hill to make things prettier.

3

National stereotypes, pillars of pragmatic diplomacy ever since 2000 BC and the clear mark of logical thinkers the world over.

4

To give an example, no one calls Pillars of Eternity a AAA game despite it being raved over by gamers.

5

Lodges, while at one time pillars of the local community, isn't the same thing.

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The two biggest pillars of my experience developing C# though are ReSharper and NuGet.

7

Take a look at cars from the 90s, and notice how much of their upper body is glass versus pillars or whatever.

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For the secret, one of the pillars has been explained by some food chemistry -- keep the proteins in the meat fibers below 185 F.

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I have a 750 in my laptop and yesterday I booted pillars of eternity and was having much more performance problems than usual.

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>National stereotypes, pillars of pragmatic diplomacy ever since 2000 BC and the clear mark of logical thinkers the world over.

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I built the platform which is a mix of an ad server, tracking platform and email system with the data sharable among all pillars.

12

Those little aluminium pillars are brilliant.

Quote examples

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The page explaining a policy called Neutral Point of View, one of “five pillars” fundamental to Wikipedia, is almost 5,000 words long.

2

The main reason is that Microsoft wasn't on track to ship the OS with its grand vision (the "Pillars of Longhorn," which included e.g.

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Her work is critical of various pillars of gender science, and most definitely does not refrain from tackling the "Greater Male Variability" hypothesis that gets so much mileage these days.

4

Here's what I did: I separated things into "Pillars".

Proper noun examples

1

Pillars of Eternity work on Linux without any kind of installation (or other problems, in my experience) by bundling Mono runtime with the game.

2

My favorite was the first one called Hall of Pillars.

3

Pillars of Eternity, Endless Legend etc.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use pillars in a sentence?

That's one of the massive pillars that their reputation has been staked on for more than a century.

What does pillars mean?

Something resembling such a structure.

What part of speech is pillars?

pillars is commonly used as noun.