Example Sentences

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That, at least, felt like home for the hundreds of thousands of Protestant middle Americans who migrated to L.A. and, in the land of Spanish missions, built themselves white clapboard New England-style steepled churches.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2023

Greene County is carpeted with hundreds of evangelical churches that range from steepled 19th-century edifices to back-roads barns.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2021

Perhaps it is just a single stand of trees, straight-trunked with steepled boughs, prickly needles and oblong cones, seen but unnoticed, hidden in plain sight.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2021

As Macron spoke, Trump steepled his fingers, peered around the room and made eye contact with reporters, as if to convey indifference.

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2019

The social worker steepled his fingers and fixed the boy with a stare.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman