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Six example sentences with cylindrical, each labelled with its topic.
The tower is cylindrical from base to roof, so every apartment on a floor gets an identical curved balcony.
Architecture
The sample sits in a cylindrical chamber whose walls are the same distance from the beam at every angle.
Science
Roll the dough into a cylindrical log, chill it for an hour, then slice even coins from one end.
Cooking
The battery cell is cylindrical, and the pack holds hundreds of them upright in a honeycomb of cooling channels.
Technology
The sculptor cast cylindrical columns of wax and stacked them into a tower that leans without falling.
Art
Mesopotamian seals were cylindrical, rolled across wet clay to leave a band of figures that repeated along the tablet.
History
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