How to Use silo in a Sentence

silo

noun
  • His body crashed down the silo chute and straight into the earth.
    Melina Mara, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Price* Don't take these price figures with a grain of salt; take them with the whole silo's worth.
    Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 3 July 2023
  • The Early & Daniel Co. first owned the silos, which sat vacant for decades.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 2 Aug. 2023
  • With luck, the twig will grow into a clone of the tree in the silo, and produce more of the same delicious fruit.
    Jacob Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The sense is of being at the bottom of a silo spinning rapidly.
    Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The goal is to never let a piece of content sit in a silo in one channel.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • But those of us who find Trump odious are not living in a silo.
    Roxane Gay, Fortune, 13 May 2023
  • Removal of fly ash from silos will begin the week of July 24.
    Linda Gandee, cleveland, 17 July 2023
  • If so, pack yourself a bug-out kit and invest in a disused bomb silo.
    Jazz Shaw, National Review, 26 June 2021
  • The film is very much, here’s these two people in a silo because of the grief of the loss of their son, Dino, after years of illness.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 19 Dec. 2023
  • My roots in the theater [taught me to] create a complete character based on the script, the choices and the world that is in its own silo.
    Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2022
  • What’s wrong with painting your silo like a huge barber pole?
    Owen Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Agent 355 sends Yorick off with Sonia and Mann to a nearby silo that's just outside town.
    Nick Schager, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The centerpiece of Pask’s set is a barn with two silos, all set on a six-degree angle.
    Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 7 June 2023
  • Fencing surrounds the place; underneath the ground, there is a silo.
    Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Economists tend to look at things in a silo, Holman said, while a soccer fan would be able to see the whole pitch.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
  • Their house was just a mile from the cemetery, but is long gone, with only a silo remaining.
    Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The grain silo still looks like it was punched in, but the water tower the tornado ripped out of the ground has been removed and even replaced.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The interior of the 672-square-foot silo has a modern artistic vibe.
    Kristi Eaton, Chron, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Shrapnel eviscerated the roof of a grain silo the size of a football field.
    Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
  • On his way to and from town, Jack drove past the 50-foot grain silo where his brother, Tim, nearly died three decades prior at just 19 years old.
    Melina Mara, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Within his silo, the pandemic did not change as much because APG and its staff could not afford to let it.
    James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 11 June 2021
  • Firefighters opened the hatch at the top of the six-story silo in order to spray the burning material.
    Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2023
  • In January of 2004, his body was found inside of an unused grain silo.
    Nicolás Viñuela, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Ziemkiewicz directed Hurley to open the metal door of the treatment system, which looked like a miniature grain silo built over the seep.
    Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Beyond the privacy fence was a trailer park and a row of gray silos at the grain elevator.
    Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • The work contributes to the artist’s U.S. silo series, Monuments.
    Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The next one does the same for mortar, which is typically dispensed from a large storage silo.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The cost of surgery is in a different silo of Medicare so dialysis centers don’t incur the cost.
    Grace-Marie Turner, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • Inside, the residents know nothing of the world above, only the daily work needed to keep the silo functioning.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023

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