- present participle of tower.
towering
Example Sentences
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Nearly a century after the crash of the Hindenburg airship, the images of towering flames and mangled metal haven’t lost their power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
As a fleet-footed forward, Floyd could not be more of a different player to his dad Christopher, who was a no-nonsense towering centre-back.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
With a population of about 2,400, it could pass for any number of prairie towns: modest houses and churches, mostly boarded-up storefronts, and a grain elevator towering above everything.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
They do not always resemble the towering wall of water people imagine.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
First a museum full of towering skeletons surrounding a special glass case displaying the poop that started it all.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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