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spire

[spahyuhr] / spaɪər /


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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

Exiting Raffles onto the busy road, I noticed across the street the spire of a snow-white Gothic chapel with stained glass windows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

The medieval cathedral has been closed since a major fire tore through it in 2019, destroying its stained-glass windows and wooden interiors before toppling its spire.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2024

He had dreamed—or so he thought—of a magnificent church with a great, reaching spire that would rise from the city’s tallest hill.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs




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