towered
/ (ˈtaʊəd) /
having a tower or towers
(in combination): four-towered; high-towered
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How to use towered in a sentence
A burly Belgian, strapped with grenades and ammunition, towered above them.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis | Nina Strochlic | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI was sitting so low, even the permafrost-stunted spruce trees towered over me.
Visiting the Arctic Circle…Before It’s Irreversibly Changed | Terry Greene Sterling | April 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRichards, who towered over his Dennehy when he appeared in court alongside her Monday, denies all charges.
Female British Serial Killer Shocks Lawyer, Pleads Guilty | Tom Sykes | November 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe film played on a dozen or so boxed-in screens that towered over the Park Avenue Armory audience.
He was a tall boy anyway, but the extra year made it so that he towered over his new classmates.
He Was My Favorite Student, and They Say He Killed a Baby | Brandy Zadrozny | September 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
He towered grimly above her, shaking a threatening finger in her very face.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniHe saw her against the background of the hills, whose following mass towered menacingly above her little outline.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodBehind her towered high and mighty mountains, before her lay a sea of moon-swept valley.
The Adventure Girls at K Bar O | Clair BlankOne 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 DavisMany 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
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