How to Use cylinder in a Sentence

cylinder

noun

• The jack-up ship then plunges four steel cylinders to the ocean floor.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• The sub is made from a carbon fiber cylinder, so the walls are curved.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
• Ice then forms on the walls of the cylinder and a spinning auger scrapes it off as ice chips.
  — Eva Bleyer, goodhousekeeping.com, 15 Apr. 2023
• True to its name, the stove runs on propane cylinders, which are easy to attach.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2023
• Ice cores are long cylinders of ice drilled out of the surface.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2023
• The cylinder was seen for three or four minutes, the report said.
  — USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• In his hand was a small cylinder wrapped in brown paper.
  — Thomas Korsgaard, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• Mamie Smith and the beginnings of the flat 78, where (records were) not a cylinder anymore.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 May 2023
• Roll the cylinder in flour, then in eggs, and then in bread crumbs; set aside on baking sheet.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
• That cylinder then moves up and down against a liquid or gas.
  — Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 20 Mar. 2023
• The six-cylinder engine is powerful and the truck has a three-speed stick shift.
  — WSJ, 26 Nov. 2022
• The ship uses the cylinders as legs to rise above the waves and transform into a platform.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• But the complication is that the cylinder design has changed over the years.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• Three of the cylinders leaked as a result of the crash and had to be carefully removed, the statement said.
  — Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
• The Rangers, who’ve now lost 13 of their last 17 games and fallen to third in the AL West standings, just can’t click on all cylinders.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2023
• Each cylinder was open in the rear, so the blast would propel it forward, flinging the net over ducks on the water.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
• With the standard 230 hp, the base-level Blazer cannot offer as much fun as the six-cylinder does.
  — Marc Grasso, Hartford Courant, 23 July 2022
• Odysseus is a hexagonal cylinder with six legs, about 14 feet tall and 5 feet wide.
  — Mackenzie McCarty, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2024
• Using your hands, form the dough into eight fat cylinders, then wrap these with the corn husks, tying the ends with kitchen twine.
  — Jonathan Miles, Field & Stream, 15 Nov. 2023
• The heavier ski boat required a truck with an eight-cylinder engine.
  — Darrell Amy, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Each roll comes with an entire cylinder full, but there never seems to be enough.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• The video also shows what Lesufi said was the cylinder responsible for the leak lying on the floor next to the entrance of the shack.
  — Mogomotsi Magome and Gerald Imray, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2023
• The Knights’ air attack was hitting on all cylinders, and the defense may have been even better.
  — Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• The coprolite is shaped like a cylinder and more than 2.7 inches long.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2023
• Simply fill it with ice and insert the cylinder, and when the ice melts inside the cylinder, remove it and fill again with fresh ice.
  — Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 30 June 2023
• There are several ways to tell if your CO2 cylinder needs to be replaced.
  — Topher Gauk-Roger, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
• His creation is simple: A small copper cylinder with a pin-sized hole sits atop a steel pole.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2024
• The issue lies in a loose fastener that connects the brake booster and the brake master cylinder.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
• The principal monument, a limestone cylinder, would contain a small tree as well as the names of the dead.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• Players who are shooting a free throw cannot go over the foul line until the ball reaches the basket cylinder.
  — Tim Reynolds, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024