Sentences with phrase «tall columns like»

The ships rely on so - called Flettner rotors, tall columns like enlarged smokestacks that jut up from the center of the ship and spin in the wind, driving the ship perpendicular to the air flow and also serving as the funnels from which the sea spray would emerge.

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From the book: «Like something out of an epic fantasy novel, Scotland's Fingal's Cave is a 270 - foot - deep, 72 - foot - tall sea cave with walls of perfectly hexagonal columns.
Perched near the hot seams of some midocean ridges are curious pillars of lava, like Greek columns, many of them 45 feet tall.
For me, I am very tall (6» 0 ″) and thin and I find that long dresses make me look like a giant column, I also think that really tight sexy dressed look terrible because I don't have a curvy body.
At first all he can see are tall windows high overhead, shafts of light like columns.
It looks more like a small church, with a central nave outlined by tall white columns on each side, and flanked by stained glass windows.
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