The boule is formed in the shape of a tapered cylinder, with a diameter broadening away from the base and eventually remaining more or less constant.

The spokes, shaped like tapered cylinders, would be the center section of the rocket fuselage during the flight to outer space.

I touched the side of the tapered cylinder wonderingly, feeling something very calm and strong about it, though I didn't know why.

Mocha opened her handbag, took out a tapered cylinder with a flat glazed plate at one end.

The great tapered cylinder swam into sight.

These chambers were tall tapered cylinders that were externally cooled by water flowing down the outside surface of the chamber.

Two tapered cylinders shimmered under the moon, the mission's big cargo vessel and the luxury .

Work began with the construction of the eighty-by-six-teen-kilometer tapered cylinder that was to house the administrative and support systems for the new world.

She lay stretched on the floor, a tapered cylinder beneath her legs.

It was a tapered cylinder with swept-back rigid wings and a double tail.