towered

/ (ˈtaʊəd) /


adjective
    • having a tower or towers

    • (in combination): four-towered; high-towered

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How to use towered in a sentence

  • He towered grimly above her, shaking a threatening finger in her very face.

    St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
  • He saw her against the background of the hills, whose following mass towered menacingly above her little outline.

    The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
  • Behind her towered high and mighty mountains, before her lay a sea of moon-swept valley.

  • One last effort—and he was out of the forest; the jagged summit still towered above him, but he could look forth—on what a view!

    God Wills It! | William Stearns Davis
  • Many of them towered a hundred feet with scarcely a limb to mar the wand-like symmetry of the six-foot boles.

    A Virginia Scout | Hugh Pendexter