PILLAR in a Sentence

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For PILLAR, below is one of 77 sentences:
Mother had always been just as she was, a pillar of strength, a fount of wisdom, the one person who knew the answers to everything.

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 Meanings and Examples of PILLAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pillar
 n.  column; post
Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  Mother had always been just as she was, a pillar of strength, a fount of wisdom, the one person who knew the answers to everything.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  She pounded her clenched fist against the tall white pillar beside her, and she wished that she were Samson, so that she could pull down all of Twelve Oaks and destroy every person in it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  She sprawled back against a pillar of the porch and with a shaking hand unbuttoned her basque halfway down her bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  She lay back against the pillar in silence and Prissy, aware of her mood, tiptoed away into the darkness of the porch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
5  He was a "floorsman" at Jones's, and a wounded steer had broken loose and mashed him against a pillar.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
6  Then he was forced to acknowledge that he could not go on without fainting; it almost broke his heart to do it, and he stood leaning against a pillar and weeping like a child.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
7  Jurgis shrank back appalled, for he thought it was an accident; there fell a pillar of white flame, dazzling as the sun, swishing like a huge tree falling in the forest.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
8  Turning like a headed deer, he shot, with the swiftness of an arrow, through a pillar of forked flame, and passing the whole multitude harmless, he appeared on the opposite side of the clearing.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
9  We just get fired around from pillar to post and get licked here and get licked there, and nobody knows what it's done for.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
10  He wanted to see her, not against the tea urn, but with her glass green eyes and thick body, the neck was broad as a pillar, against an arum lily or a vine.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
11  One towel passed round the throat and was secured at the back of the pillar.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
12  They seemed distressed to find me, my arm against the overturned pillar, peering down the well.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
13  Cranly, leaning against a pillar, was picking his teeth with a sharpened match, listening to some companions.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  He began to beat the frayed end of his ashplant against the base of a pillar.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  Temple sat on the pediment of a pillar, leaning back, his cap pulled down on his sleepy eyes.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The administration of jusice is the firmest pillar of government.
2  The pillar obstructed our view of the stage.
3  This pillar is a monument to all those who died in the civil war.
4  Mr Fitzwilliam had been seen as a pillar of the community.
5  She is a pillar of strength in a crisis.
6  The poor kid has been pushed from pillar to post.
7  It is a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: whitewashed, I suppose, to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness.
8  I leant against a pillar of the verandah, drew my grey mantle close about me, and, trying to forget the cold which nipped me without, and the unsatisfied hunger which gnawed me within.
9  I leant against a pillar of the verandah, drew my grey mantle close about me, and, trying to forget the cold which nipped me without, and the unsatisfied hunger which began to gnaw me within.
10  One of the pillars of a civilized society must be that everyone has equal access to the legal system.
11  One of the pillars of society must be that everyone has access to the legal system.
12  The pillars couldn't support the weight of the roof.
13  The roof of the church was supported by stone pillars.
14  Eight massive stone pillars supported the roof.
15  The roof is supported by eight massive stone pillars.