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Privacy The most suitable tree for a privacy screen along your side yard is the nonnative arborvitae, a cylindrically shaped evergreen with scale-like leaves instead of needles.

From Washington Post

The standard-size Galaxie will have its massive circular taillights set into cylindrically sculptured rear fenders in a kind of twin jet effect.

From Time Magazine Archive

A rather difficult flight of steps goes down to a narrow passage leading into a cylindrically vaulted cell with niches in the walls.

From Yorkshire by Home, Gordon

The diameter of the lap is increased by driving the taper mandrel through it, and the lead is therefore maintained cylindrically true.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

What is known as black shafting is simply bars of iron rolled by the ordinary process and made cylindrically true only where it receives its couplings, and for its journal bearings, &c.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua