tower above
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Michael Penix Jr.’s Heisman Trophy campaign wasn’t built with billboards that tower above city streets, audacious as each may be.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 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
An osprey, tired of fighting the breeze, was perched on a tower above the jetty, content to stare out at the ocean for a while.
From Slate • Sep. 1, 2022
Modern office buildings of glass and steel and a cluster of apartments and cranes tower above the skyline.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 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
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