towered
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Towered over by cranes, the tunnel entrance sits at the base of a steep coastal wall with sparkling seawater lying overhead.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025
When that call comes, no "Towered cities please us then And the busy hum of men," or of automobiles.
From The Hills of Hingham by Sharp, Dallas Lore
Towered up between me and the stars, and still,
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil
We knew, we knew it by the rhyme, Though we seemed, after all, No tinier, yet the sweet wild thyme Towered like a forest tall All round us; oh, we knew not how.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred
Round its entrance grew A tangled copse, and one gigantic yew Towered at its mouth.
From The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 by Various
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