How to Use pillar in a Sentence
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There are four pillars of hip-hop.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
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The glow of the fire and pillars of smoke could be seen for miles.
—Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
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Denim will be a key pillar of the brand in its new form.
—Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 28 May 2026
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All regimes are held up by pillars of support.
—Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 7 Nov. 2025
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The third and most profound pillar deals with time.
—Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
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Six pillars of life to go along with six guitar strings.
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
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And the last pillar is battling.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 24 Mar. 2026
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The war has dented these pillars.
—Daniel Benaim, Time, 18 May 2026
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There were pillars in the theater.
—Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
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June stiffened, a pillar of ice.
—Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
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Now the last pillar is battling, and these are all the things that come with it.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 24 Mar. 2026
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And those two are our OGs that are the pillars of the show.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 7 May 2026
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But there is still enough to reconstruct the pillars of his ideas.
—Theodore McDarrah, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
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Those pillars were already strong.
—Peter High, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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Business travel and tourism are key pillars of the plan.
—Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 28 Mar. 2026
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Guzman knocks on the door, then goes behind a pillar.
—Zach Boetto, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
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Garrett was a franchise pillar, so this will hurt.
—Jeff Howe, New York Times, 1 June 2026
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Charlie, as he was known, was our human pillar.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2026
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The more pillars two people share, the faster and deeper the bond tends to form.
—Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 June 2026
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Thick plastics and thin A-pillars.
—Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 3 June 2026
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The country’s strength comes from steady progress across all five pillars of the index.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
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The soft, rhythmic sound of small waves striking the base of the pillars echoed around them.
—Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
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Such an initiative should rest on five pillars.
—David A. Deptula, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
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The show is meant to represent and be about the gray between two pillars.
—Erik Piepenburg, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
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Jordan treats it as a strategic pillar.
—Emily Price, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
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For him, a high school is a big pillar for any community.
—Dennis Valera, CBS News, 17 June 2026
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Sauropods are herbivores known for their very long necks, long tails, small head and pillar-like legs.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
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What’s the thing that excites you that could be a fourth pillar for Amazon?
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
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Williams described proof of income as one of the pillars of bank lending.
—Conrad Wilson, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2026
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There will be silk dresses and shirts — another pillar of the brand.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 25 Feb. 2026
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That's with respect to pillar 2.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
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You’re allowed to have Facebook pages that pillar the leaders and.
—Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 Jan. 2023
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Some of this light comes back toward the metalens, which is pointed, pillars out, toward the scene.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 May 2023
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The light frayed, ghostly pillars shifting, the voice of God made visible.
—Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
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Workers saw deep cracks in the building’s support pillars the day before the disaster, but their warnings went ignored.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 1 May 2026
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All six of the new Yuletide scents start at just $2 and come in various sizes from tiny tea lights and votive lights to pillar candles and large jars.
—Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 5 Oct. 2018
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The recovery initiative is pillared by a breeding program and habitat safeguards.
—Helena Amante, Smithsonian, 8 Oct. 2019
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Bobbie for Change is also raising funds for the Alex Morgan Foundation in support of their new moms pillar.
—Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
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And then there is the Clark County Courthouse, under whose limestone pillars the Ku Klux Klan marched as recently as 1994.
—Caitlin Hu, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
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The team started working on the research which initially began in 2014 with the Staghorn coral, but then the focus shifted to pillar coral because of a disease that has been devastating to the Florida Reef Tract.
—Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 21 Aug. 2019
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