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  • adjective having the form of a column

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Examples

  • In a statement carried by its state-run news agency, Pyongyang called the leaflets - stuffed into columnlike balloons - a psychological plot to "shake up our socialism and break the trust of our military and people."

    North Korea threatens 'firing attacks' on South over leaflets about Mideast turmoil 2011

  • In a statement carried by its state-run news agency, Pyongyang called the leaflets - stuffed into columnlike balloons - a psychological plot to "shake up our socialism and break the trust of our military and people."

    North Korea threatens 'firing attacks' on South over leaflets about Mideast turmoil 2011

  • The large chunks of debris thrown up by the impacts soon returned to the surface—except that none penetrated the fields that rose columnlike directly above each ship.

    Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010

  • The room in which he found himself was expansive, with a high vaulted ceiling and a columnlike structure in each corner.

    Day of Honor Carey, Diane 1997

  • The weather-tanned neck that rose, columnlike, from the open shirt-throat.

    The Gun-Brand 1921

  • It looked as if the strong man, with his almost blasphemous intolerance of disunion, his columnlike power of supporting, and his incomparable intellect, was to stand in the background and watch the nightmare play from afar.

    Aladdin O'Brien Gouverneur Morris 1914

  • He was being looked at by a dead man who was seated with his back against a columnlike tree.

    The Red Badge of Courage 1895

  • He was being looked at by a dead man who was seated with his back against a columnlike tree.

    The Red Badge of Courage 1895

  • He was being looked at by a dead man who was seated with his back against a columnlike tree.

    The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885

  • He was being looked at by a dead man who was seated with his back against a columnlike tree.

    The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885

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