steeple

The simple contour of a chapel, its steeple slightly off-center, stands out from the wall about six inches deep.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

A motorized unit arriving to plant a flag on a church steeple and take a photo—then bolting immediately.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

We park with a view of the village church steeple backed by steely limestone peaks of the Pyrenees and lunch at a bar some feet away.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

The earthquake brought down the church steeple and part of the roof.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025

“Let us pray,” he said slowly; but Turner thought that the prayer he prayed wasn’t rising much above First Congregational’s steeple.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

The cultivated landscape extends into the distance, where tiny steeples and other buildings offer signs of city life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

The chapel, whose unusual design includes three spires, two steeples, a belfry and separate sanctuaries for Catholics and Protestants, has been locked and left to decay since being damaged in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

About 180 sites have sustained structural damage requiring at least partial reconstruction, including churches with collapsed steeples or statues missing pieces.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

Her first, Winston Churchill, had spoken of the "dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone" rising again after World War One to bedevil British politics.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2022

She flew over the town of Berne and the steeples of North Blenheim.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

That, at least, felt like home for the hundreds of thousands of Protestant middle Americans who migrated to L.A. and, in the land of Spanish missions, built themselves white clapboard New England-style steepled churches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2023

The 1853 town was built in the same Maine style as the company town’s sawmill founders and workers had grown up with — steepled churches, clapboard homes with bright white trim and picket fences.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

About 100 people, mostly White, gathered on the grassy lawn of the Grayson County courthouse, the nondescript beige block that in 1936 replaced the steepled stone beauty that had burned.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2021

Perhaps it is just a single stand of trees, straight-trunked with steepled boughs, prickly needles and oblong cones, seen but unnoticed, hidden in plain sight.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2021

Attorney Fitzgerald’s fingers are steepled and his eyes are fixed on mine.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

Adil Rashid had earlier dropped a steepling catch when Short was on 27 and England also missed a thin edge behind off Josh Inglis when the wicketkeeper was on two.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2024

Like the rest of the world, the Philippines is having to pay a lot more for energy imports, but it is the steepling prices of staple foodstuffs that has become most hard to stomach.

From Reuters ● Feb. 15, 2023

Guardiola sat on an icebox in the technical area, his fingers steepling against his forehead, in horrified awe, as if trying to impose some reason on it all.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2022

De Beer’s trusty right boot also set up one of South Africa’s two tries as a steepling up-and-under bounced kindly into the grasp of winger Pieter Roussow, who flopped over the line.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 1, 2019

Jenny’s chair let out a plaintive squeak as she leaned back, steepling her fingers in front of her, serious now.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon