Example Sentences

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The shape of the dress, rising pyramidally upward, mountain-like, feels as if it were the real subject of the portrait.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2018

He was seated on two reversed buckets, pyramidally balanced, at a small table which had the air of wide capabilities in some other sphere of usefulness.

From From One Generation to Another by Merriman, Henry Seton

His head is small and deer-shaped, his eyes soft and lustrous, but his tapering superior extremities rise almost pyramidally from a heavy and disproportioned base of hind legs and tail.

From Forest and Frontiers Or, Adventures Among the Indians by Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn

On a nearer approach they represent every form of elegant ruins—columns, some with pedestals and capitals entire, others mutilated and prostrate, and some rising pyramidally over each other till they terminate in a sharp point.

From First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Brooks, Noah

Balls there were in abundance, for, in addition to piles standing pyramidally at the foot of each tower, half-covered now by flowers and shrubs, there were similar piles close to the carriage of each gun.

From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by Fenn, George Manville