How to Use cylindrical in a Sentence

cylindrical

adjective

• The small, cylindrical camera’s best feature is its ease of use.
  — Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Nov. 2019
• This shape enables the tank to withstand a greater amount of pressure than a cylindrical tank can, Beyelia said.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
• Your favorite thin, salty chips come in in that cylindrical can made up of paper but with a metal lining inside?
  — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• The shape of the fruit is more cylindrical than conical, but is rather short (just a bit longer than the typical raspberry).
  — oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2019
• The professor imagined colonies housed in miles-long cylindrical tubes floating between Earth and the moon.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
• The compact, cylindrical oven can only bake one cookie at a time, which is smooshed in a special silicon pouch and mounted in the oven.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 Nov. 2019
• With its cylindrical shape, anodized aluminum finish, and leather-like handle, the purifier will excite you to make space for it.
  — Adam Mansuroglu, WWD, 1 Nov. 2024
• Fox 5 San Diego posted video of the large, cylindrical structure involved in the incident.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
• Meanwhile, a sculptural cylindrical bar encases a white gold–and-nickel mosaic.
  — Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 20 Nov. 2019
• In the absence of gravity to hold a cookie on its baking sheet, the dough on board the station will be suspended in a special holder and mounted in the center of a cylindrical oven chamber.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2019
• Now joggers trot around the 19th century gasworks whose frames have been filled with sleek cylindrical apartment buildings, and food trucks assemble on an orderly roster.
  — Vogue, 16 Sep. 2019
• The contours of the reef give the wave its famous cylindrical shape.
  — Outside Online, 2 Feb. 2022
• The PaMu Scroll buds had a cylindrical charge case with a leather flap for a lid.
  — Brad Moon, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• Bricks began to lift and dizzy around the cylindrical walls.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• The cylindrical filter is closed on one end and open on the other.
  — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2021
• For the tray, the Cheese Gal got a cylindrical option on Amazon.
  — Megan Schaltegger, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Mar. 2023
• Most are cylindrical, long, and mainly made of foam (of course).
  — Julie Laing, Health, 23 Mar. 2023
• The vase has a spherical body and a long cylindrical neck.
  — CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
• The mills are so beloved that there's a sculpture called the Cruz de Piedra a block from Mamá Pacha that's made with those cylindrical stones.
  — Joe Ray, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
• Throw on a pencil dress and carry a cylindrical item and call it a Bauhaus wand.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
• The drops come in white, cylindrical bottles with eye-dropper caps and a white lid.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2023
• Two of them had a cylindrical shape while the third was spherical.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
• The object, a large black cylindrical item, is about as long as a wood pallet.
  — oregonlive, 10 Apr. 2021
• The Sub Mini would be smaller and have a cylindrical shape.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2022
• Locate and remove the cylindrical mesh filter at the base of the handle.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2024
• The difference is the cylindrical shape which gives more room for the audio to form inside.
  — Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 18 Nov. 2020
• As the sounds turn to white noise, the eyes spot the rows of cylindrical tanks arranged symmetrically across the room.
  — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
• The brush has an oval, cylindrical shape that smooths hair and can glide through even coarse hair without pulling or tugging.
  — Dori Price, Good Housekeeping, 19 July 2023
• Pellet ice is cylindrical, with smooth sides and rough ends, as if each piece had been snapped off of a long dowel of ice.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2021
• The typist used one hand to rotate the cylindrical grid and the other hand to move a cursor left and right to indicate one of the 4,356 cells.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024