- plural of column.
columns
Example Sentences
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The office-to-residential conversion added new construction to an existing building, causing supporting columns to buckle and steel beams to bend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
She doesn't yet know that the inspection determined several columns in her house are compromised and it shouldn't be inhabited because they could give way.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Four huge columns await the delivery of high pressure gas from 5km below the platform, all but 100m of which is under the seabed.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Two columns buckled and floors sagged in the former Pfizer headquarters in Midtown during an apartment conversion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Wielaf said, “He made the debris to the upper level by blasting out some columns and stuff. He climbed it. Then left the way you all came in.”
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
