How to Use cylinder in a Sentence

cylinder

noun
  • Cut a piece and roll it to make a cylinder or tube.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The jack-up ship then plunges four steel cylinders to the ocean floor.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The cylinder would be at least as big as a hula hoop.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 24 Nov. 2025
  • A lot of cylinders were firing this week.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
  • That cylinder then moves up and down against a liquid or gas.
    — Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Cut the sand back around this circle to form a cylinder shape.
    — Scott Yorko, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2020
  • Ice cores are long cylinders of ice drilled out of the surface.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Both sides of her brain are firing on all cylinders at all times.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 12 July 2019
  • These join the tail of your deadbolt lock cylinder to the smart lock.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2020
  • First, put the casters and gas cylinder in the five-prong base.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 9 June 2026
  • The sub is made from a carbon fiber cylinder, so the walls are curved.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
  • That is why this saga has clicked on all cylinders for nearly half a decade.
    — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The three routers are quite small and sport a cylinder design that blends in well.
    — Simon Hill, Wired, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Or just put one treat in the middle cylinder, and watch your pup sniff it out.
    — Maddie Hiatt, House Beautiful, 2 Aug. 2019
  • True to its name, the stove runs on propane cylinders, which are easy to attach.
    — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The ball hit the back of the rim and fell out of the cylinder as the buzzer sounded.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Remove the spark plug and spray a shot of oil into the cylinder.
    — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 11 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Out of the roller came a slim cylinder that looked like a baby cheroot.
    — David Kamp, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • On it sit a pair of tiny cylinders called centrioles.
    — Humberto Basilio, Scientific American, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The cylinder was seen for three or four minutes, the report said.
    — USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • Time is often a flat circle — or in this case, a cylinder.
    — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 22 May 2026
  • The couplings join the tail of your deadbolt lock cylinder to the smart lock.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Roll the cylinder in flour, then in eggs, and then in bread crumbs; set aside on baking sheet.
    — People Staff, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Ice cores are long cylinders drilled from the ice sheets of the polar regions.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Reroll the dough sheets away from you into cylinders and loosely pinch them closed.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Cut the cylinders into ¾-inch slices and place them back on the cookie sheet.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Drew Lock came out firing on all cylinders in the first half of his first game.
    — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Eight cylinders were out and small, turbocharged six and four cylinders were in.
    — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 7 June 2026

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