tower
Example Sentences
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Standing taller than Big Ben's clock tower at nearly 100m, the rocket and its launch platform weigh about 5,000 tonnes.
From BBC
As he swept his sidewalk, Rivera nodded to the mural of Chavez that towered above children playing Thursday at Cesar Chavez Elementary School.
"People don't want a huge windfarm towering over their village," he said, predicting the issue would be high on the agenda in the upcoming election campaign.
From BBC
Eyyub, based in a Moscow office tower, flew around on a pair of private jets procured from an Estonian businessman.
By five minutes before noon we were always back at the train station, standing at a point on the platform from which we had a good view of the tower of the Naval Observatory.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
