are towering

• present progressive

  present progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.

  of tower.
  tower

  noun

  a building or structure high in proportion to its lateral dimensions, either isolated or forming part of a building.

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are towering

The machines that capture these collisions are towering constructions, stacks of detectors and instruments arranged in concentric rings, all of it connected with thousands of wires.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 22, 2023

There are towering specimens, some 80 to 100 years old.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2023

At the trail’s terminus are towering cliffs from which we look down at ocean swells crashing against the rocky shoreline.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022

Compounding the crisis are towering piles of Styrofoam boxes on the streets since February.

From Reuters ● Apr. 29, 2022

I came 'round to the yard—she's hired the Bateman place, furnished, you know, while the Batemans are towering in Canada, she and her sister, who's a doctor lady.

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