tower above
Example Sentences
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In the distance stood a hill where the flagpole would tower above the landscape, topped with an observation tower with blinking lights cutting through the dark stillness of night.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2023
In Salzgitter, Germany, some 25 miles from Volkswagen’s headquarters, steel beams tower above concrete foundations as excavators and dump trucks hum nearby.
From New York Times • May 31, 2023
Surrounded by tight residential streets on the edge of the town centre, Kenilworth Road's floodlights tower above back-to-back terraced houses.
From BBC • May 10, 2023
At the end, one child, the “enxaneta,” ascends to the very top of the tower, above the last three levels known as the “pom de dalt.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2022
They’ll be our lookouts—put one in the carnival and keep the other The folding man unfolded from his chair to tower above us.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
