How to Use columnar in a Sentence

columnar

adjective

• Blue-green foliage and a columnar habit make for a gorgeous specimen in tight spaces.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 Mar. 2026
• This slow-growing columnar cactus looks striking in a pot because it’s covered in white, wooly spines that look like unkempt hair.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Feb. 2026
• Slowly, very slowly, the serpent’s erectile head came up, up, cantilevered from its upper body, its firm, columnar upper body.
  — John McPhee, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
• Dicot trees, on the other hand, may feature gargantuan, columnar trunks meant to support an enormous canopy.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 4 June 2026
• Although there are taller, more upright or columnar forms, look for the dwarf varieties, which maintain their rounded habits with little to no pruning.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 12 June 2026
• The dozens of varieties available offer unique forms to fill any garden niche, from ground-hugging sprawlers to narrow columnar varieties.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2025
• Its columnar growth habit produces self-pollinating shell-pink flowers in the spring, freestone fruit in the summer, and bright yellow fall foliage.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026
• They were once used as street trees in Los Angeles for their drought tolerance, columnar growth habit, and attractive silhouette against the sky.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 16 Aug. 2025
• Japanese plum yews varieties include low spreading forms and upright columnar varieties.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2025
• Researchers have unearthed skeletal remains of Nagatitan, a member of the dinosaur lineage called sauropods known for having a long neck, long tail, small head and four columnar legs.
  — Reuters, NBC news, 15 May 2026
• This columnar evergreen is incredibly versatile, equally at home in formal settings and as an accent in cottage gardens.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 May 2026
• With twelve gorgeous varieties, there is a shape, size, and color to fit any garden including semi-dwarf cultivars and upright, nearly columnar varieties for small spaces.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
• Abiqua Falls — known for its 92-foot (28-meter) vertical drop over a columnar basalt cliff — has been privately owned for over a century but open to the public.
  — ABC News, 12 Mar. 2026
• Ashley Thompson, a horticulture professor at Oregon University Extension, suggests columnar varieties for the tightest of spaces, as these varieties still produce full-sized fruit.
  — Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 25 Apr. 2026
• Why Espaliered Trees Need Extra Support Espaliered trees, like Stewart’s columnar European hornbeams (Carpinus betulus 'Fastigiata'), are trained to grow flat against walls using trellises or lattices.
  — Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2025