How to Use cylinder in a Sentence

cylinder

noun

• That is why this saga has clicked on all cylinders for nearly half a decade.
  — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Nov. 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
• Roll tortilla into a cylinder and place seam-side down into baking pan.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 11 May 2021
• Ward drove and put up a shot that circled the inside of the cylinder, popped out, re-entered briefly and then fell off the rim.
  — Star Tribune, 7 May 2021
• This tractor had a transmission with six gears and a two-cylinder horizontal diesel engine.
  — Star Tribune, 24 May 2021
• Old-fashioned zoetropes had drawings on the inside of the cylinder of a barrel that were observed through tiny slits cut into the barrel above each picture.
  — Charlotte Hu, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
• Sogefi is the sole source for an oil filtration module used on every six-cylinder Fiat Chrysler engine.
  — Washington Post, 8 May 2021
• The new engine added to the bike’s overall weight loss, with a 5.7 pound reduction in mass through lighter pistons, rods, cylinder heads and transmission components.
  — Karl Brauer, Forbes, 17 May 2021
• The arms of Ando’s concrete cylinder appear wide open to embrace works of art that are still to arrive or are still percolating in the minds of artists—an art of the present and of the future.
  — Leslie Camhi, Vogue, 20 May 2021
• The bundle comes with the machine, flavoring drops, three reusable bottles, and two Co2 cylinders (each cylinder is enough to make up to 60 bottles).
  — Tamara Gane, Southern Living, 21 May 2021
• Larger, oblong parts like cylinder heads often have a specific sequence for proper tightening, generally starting near the middle and circling around.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 21 May 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 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

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024