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

Suddenly the march of the whole army was arrested by a fort, built upon an inaccessible rock, which rose pyramidally from the bed of the stream.

From Napoleon Bonaparte by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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

Then he encouraged Forbes to borrow, indorsed his notes and speculated with the proceeds pyramidally.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert

These are laid together in long rows, or piled pyramidally, and are protected from the sun by a covering of mud and of boughs.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various