towered

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Towered over by cranes, the tunnel entrance sits at the base of a steep coastal wall with sparkling seawater lying overhead.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025

He had Towered, Fleeted, and put to the walls of Calais a number of the noblemen of England, and many of them for light causes.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.

There was not then one cabin sill Laid down on famed Ashburnham Hill, Who's heights with pine and hemlock crowned, Towered o'er the wooded landscape round.

From Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants by Lett, William Pittman

"Towered cities" and "the busy hum of men," however, are soon left behind by the wise traveller in England.

From Shakespeare's England by Winter, William

"Towered cities called us then," yet when we reached them we found but desolation, "and the fox looked out of the window."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various