What is "pylons"

Usage examples of "pylons".

Beyond the field was a ring of tall pylons maintaining the ghostly backdrop of an energy curtain.

The map stated that roads, pylons, and pipelines were only of approximate alignment.

Looking south I saw pylons a mile or so away that ran southeast-northwest, parallel to the road.

Three or four vehicles also headed southeast along the line of the pylons as if following them as a navigational aid.

Depending on the type of vehicle, we could go cross-country--heading south until we hit the pylons and then following them west--or take our chances on the road.

There were pylons, old cars, rubbish tips, dogs howling, the lights of a house.

It straddled the line and pylons extending down on either side to little more than a few metres from the ground.

These effectively sheltered it from the worst violence of the weather, but it also meant that the line came into the town at an incredibly high level and, rather than build miles of extra track to allow the trains to descend to the streets in a shallow, curving spiral, the marikhs had extended their pylons upwards until, in the centre of the city, they were level with the tops of the tallest towers.

The pylons supporting the line pointed up at it like pale, accusing fingers.

It reached the foundations, pylons sinking into the waters and holding aloft the palace.

The temples were often faced with statues of a pharaoh, and the pylons were always joined by avenues of sphinxes, ram-headed, lion-headed, human-headed.

The Thebans stood together like Huge families before the pylons, waiting for the processions of priests, which they intended to join in order to march in their train round the great temple of the city, and thence to cross with the festal barks to the Necropolis.

The camp of Rameses is depicted on the pylons of Luqsor and the Ramesseum.

He caused temples to be erected in most of the great cities of the kingdom, he added to the temple of Ptah at Memphis, and erected immense colossi in front of its pylons in memory of his deliverance from the fire.