spire

Example Sentences

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A red, white and blue spire sits atop the multistory tower.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

This base allowed to soar last Sunday’s spire of victory at another Jack Hughes’s laboring hand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Barcelona stretched out in every direction, a mosaic of old stone, glass and spire, Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia standing like an undone sentry among the rest.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2025

The fire on 15 April 2019 destroyed the medieval roof-timbers, the spire and three sections of stone vaulting.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2024

“This on the left is the Noble Hall of Justice, where we hold trials. And see over there, over that wall? That pointy, crystal spire is the Well of Lightning.”

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin