towering

Example Sentences

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It was splashed across landmarks, towering billboards, giant screens on high-rises, posters, masks and t-shirts.

From BBC

The artist’s intimate 1929 canvas, from her first stay in New Mexico, seems to gaze up at a towering tree with awe and fascination.

From The Wall Street Journal

"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

Here, every vista ended in the same concrete barrier; the camp was set down in a vast man-made valley rising on every side to those towering wire-topped walls.

From Literature

Chavez is a towering national figure credited with organizing and raising the lives of migrant farm-workers in California and beyond and giving voice to the struggles of Mexican Americans.

From Los Angeles Times