Sentence examples for towering from high-quality English sources.

• They stepped slowly down a towering metal staircase.

• “Fidel Castro was a towering figure of the 20th century.

• It's unmissable from a distance due to its towering cylindrical shape with views from all sides.

• There's also a towering organ and, unusually, a great deal of 20th-century stained glass, including an asymmetric rose window.

• My childhood on those streets — with wide sidewalks, towering maple trees, and beautiful Victorians — was idyllic.

• Now there is a towering black billboard that pays homage to ISIS and to the so-called martyrs who died fighting for its cause.

• Visitors can take a calming dip to cool off, or dive in from one of the towering cliff’s rocky edges for a real adrenaline rush.

• A towering 758 feet (231 meters) high, Warsaw’s Palace of Culture and Science was commissioned by Stalin during Poland’s communist era.

Use towering in a sentence.

• Those towering ghostly shapes must be the huge unmoving cumulus of late summer, the clouds Jesus referred to when he said “in my father’s house there are many mansions.”

• The town is located in the valley of the upper Indus River at an elevation of 11,550 feet (3,520 metres), surrounded by the towering peaks of the Ladakh Range (a southeastern extension of the Karakoram Range).

• "Settled on my sofa, as instructed, with favourite snacks and a torch by my side (all will be revealed later) the virtual auditorium fills up with folk, and suddenly the foyer of Perth Theatre, with its splendid towering Christmas tree, appears onscreen.

• The UltraBrew promises the best-tasting coffee that’s easy to brew, precision pouring, an easy-filling water chamber, and a permanent coffee filter built in, and the largely positive reviews (averaging 4.6 out of 5 stars) tend to back these towering claims.

• In the past 75 years, rather than dismantling that we replaced it with a “quasi schools’ market” so that, under the veneer of more equality, a similar hierarchy could comfortably allow the better-off to dominate the towering heights of education and society.

• His once towering 6ft 6in physique now requires a wheelchair, his days a timetable of physiotherapy, hydrotherapy and occupational therapy at a military rehabilitation centre - yet watching back videos of his days as an elite athlete does not faze him one bit.

• Conservationists also anticipate the return of locally based national monument campaigns to preserve red-rock gorges and rolling hills in Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands, as well as towering rock formations and ancient cliff dwellings in Arizona’s Greater Grand Canyon.

• They hailed him as a towering intellect - delivering an original, scorching critique refreshingly devoid of political correctness: attacking the cruelty of Islam, the corruption of Africa and the self-inflicted misery he witnessed in the poorest parts of the globe.

towering sentence examples

• The American Museum of Natural History, for instance, is removing a statue of Theodore Roosevelt that shows him astride a horse, towering above an African man and a Native American, in a tableau that critics saw as symbolizing colonialism and racial discrimination.

• Along with a new, Manchester-based architect, Stephen Hodder, Neville has now radically changed the original £200m plan to build luxury apartments, a five-star hotel, offices and restaurants, scrapping two huge bronze-clad towers described by critics as “towering turds”.

• Urban centers like New York and Chicago tend to get the most cred for their scenic skylines, but Cathedral Rock, in the heart of Arizona’s peaceful Sedona, has inched towards fame with its picturesque natural skyline, where towering vibrant red rocks meet clear blue sky.

• A towering district of glass and steel structures and the largest dedicated business district in Europe, La Défense boasts a number of striking buildings, including the GAN Tower -- Paris' tallest skyscraper at 179 meters -- and one of Europe’s largest shopping malls, Les Quatre Temps.