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

Part of the roof collapsed, but the main structure and the steeple were still standing.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

Then he sets his cigar down and brings his hands together, forming a steeple with his fingers.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

Once underestimated by her enemies, Martin, a self-appointed watchdog tuned into the plots and players in a small, gossipy community, has found that her message is radiating beyond the fields and steeples of Hood County.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024

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

The bells had stilled in their steeples, and houses had stopped collapsing momentarily.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

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

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

The float features a hand-painted wooden replica of the steepled church.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2020

He steepled his hands on the desk, scanning over us without much interest.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

Spain's 2-0 win beneath the steepling stands of Alicante's Estadio Jose Rico Perez was as predictable as it was comfortable - so what can Hodgson and England take from the defeat?

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2015

It was clicking its front legs together, steepling them like hands grown impatient from waiting.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi