How to Use cylinder in a Sentence

cylinder

noun
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  • 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 catch that held the cylinder in place opened, and all the cartridges fell out except one.
    — Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2021
  • 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 Sportbrake is gone, and so is the six-cylinder engine.
    — Jens Meiners, Robb Report, 23 July 2021
  • 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
  • Hyundai says the rings can be too hard and can be chipped, scuffing the engine cylinder.
    — CBS News, 5 May 2021
  • 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
  • That is why this saga has clicked on all cylinders for nearly half a decade.
    — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Nov. 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
  • This is the view of the top of a cylinder as the TPS ignition module sends out a plasma pulse.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 8 June 2022
  • After hanging on the cylinder for a moment, the ball rimmed out.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The engine cover has six louvers, one for each of the cylinders.
    — Jason Barlow, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Gold craft wire wrapped around a cylinder creates a spiral shape and is attached with small craft-grade nails.
    — Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Oct. 2024

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