towering above
Example Sentences
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Video filmed from inside a fire truck shows flames towering above the road as thick smoke obscures the view.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2024
Christmas trees, some towering above 14 feet, are stacked in green heaps against stands draped in fairy lights that stretch out across the concrete.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2023
A few beats later and his gaze is again directed up, but now at Rustin, who’s towering above King, challenging him.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2023
So when she saw her mother’s graduation surprise to her — 14 feet high and 48 feet across, towering above bustling Route 130 outside her hometown of Camden, New Jersey — Smalls was shocked.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2022
On they went, higher and higher up the dizzying trail, on one side the sheer stone walls and brutal peaks towering above them, and on the other an endless, limitless, bottomless nothing.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
