Example Sentences

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Such roots dangle from a banyan’s long, massive limbs, eventually entering the ground to form a pillarlike new trunk that helps support those limbs.

From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2023

For example, the dinosaurs had weight-bearing pillarlike legs, small heads, and bones peppered with air sacs.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 27, 2017

They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q by Project Gutenberg

Futilely he beat and thrust with his arms against the pillarlike limb.

From Salvage in Space by Williamson, Jack