How to Use cylinder in a Sentence

cylinder

noun
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  • The Sportbrake is gone, and so is the six-cylinder engine.
    — Jens Meiners, Robb Report, 23 July 2021
  • Chandler caught it directly above the cylinder and guided it through for the win.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 23 June 2021
  • The aluminum engine block and cylinder heads are new, and the engine pumps out 218 hp per liter.
    — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 24 June 2021
  • Then mark the metal lengthwise 2½ inches from the bottom; align the charcoal grate on the mark, and roll the metal into a cylinder [6].
    — Joe Kohl-Riggs, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2021
  • Juan Pascual was among the workers pounding a steel cylinder into some of the holes drilled into each of the plates so each splice plate and fill plate could be properly aligned.
    — Noel Oman, Arkansas Online, 21 July 2021
  • The drillers pulled up hundreds of cylinders of ice, which turned out to contain a wealth of information about the climate and helped make ice drilling a scientific subfield.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Another official said the blaze erupted when an oxygen cylinder exploded.
    — Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
  • The four-cylinder comes with a seven-speed manual or 10-speed automatic transmission.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2021
  • This mini Dyson vacuum replica has real sound effects, swirling confetti in the clear cylinder, and plenty of twisty-turny action.
    — Shanna Shipin, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The four cylinder engine offers more than enough power and torque for on and off-road driving, but without the same freeway speed passing power and throaty exhaust of the V6.
    — Karl Brauer, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • The Santa Fe hybrid comes with a 1.6L turbocharged four-cylinder engine and a single electric motor.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2021
  • The cylinder containing carbon dioxide got much hotter than the one with air, and Foote realized that carbon dioxide would strongly absorb heat in the atmosphere.
    — Sylvia G. Dee, The Conversation, 22 July 2021
  • The jack-up ship then plunges four steel cylinders to the ocean floor.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • It’s a cylinder, kind of like the size of a ballpoint pen.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2021
  • These join the tail of your deadbolt lock cylinder to the smart lock.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2021
  • The sub is made from a carbon fiber cylinder, so the walls are curved.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
  • Remove the spark plug and spray a shot of oil into the cylinder.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 3 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • The three routers are quite small and sport a cylinder design that blends in well.
    — Simon Hill, Wired, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The offense and Rodgers continued to click on all cylinders the rest of the day.
    — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
  • 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
  • The ones that Shop LC sold in pairs are cylinder-shaped (below).
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Then roll each one into an even 5 ½-inch cylinder, about the length of a hot dog.
    — Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2022
  • 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

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