tower block
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tower block
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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Hood County is named for Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood, whose monument stands beneath the courthouse tower clock in Granbury.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024
When he was 13, his mother remarried and took him to Leeds, England, where he got into trouble by throwing snowballs at his new school’s tower clock.
From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2022
Once he fixed the tower clock, city officials began letting him use much of his workday to repair other prominent city timepieces.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2018
It will turn off the tower clock for 24 hours, starting from 11:48 a.m., when the first shots rang out from the perch 50 years ago.
From Reuters • Jul. 31, 2016
As usual at nine-thirty in the afternoon, the big tower clock on the First National Bank building in the city of Marion pointed the finger of its minute-hand straight downward.
From The Landloper by Day, Holman
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