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Sentence Examples Before him, towering from Murphy's vantage point, stood a hapless young man clad head to toe in coffee-stained thrift-store seersucker. He saw himself as a titan, a giant among his peers, towering above the rest of the pack. The central development of Cromwell from a timid toady to a towering tyrant is well depicted. After a scenic tour down to Zermatt, past towering seracs and gaping crevasses, we got another helicopter ride up to the ridge. A male great spotted wood-pecker has made regular early morning visits to a nearby towering beech. The view from the high ground includes endless chains of towering mountains, running from horizon to horizon. Guess what classic, towering German torten I brought for dessert, attempting to navigate through the crowded buses and hectic sidewalks of Paris? Walking into its corridors, between the towering whiteness, has the effect, so beloved of the Romantics, of making you feel microcosmic. Emphasis is taken from the towering edifice and transferred to the ledges, curbs, benches and other ground-level surfaces that surround it. At a towering two metres tall, her portrait dominates one of the principal rooms of the National Gallery of Scotland with an imperial presence. It is broad daylight, and the Professor is peering through rain-soaked windows at towering black canyons so tall they blot out the sky. The castle was a pure sandstone building with enormous towering pillars and high arches and courtyards. As if to literalize the longing of the title, a breathtakingly extended axle-like element joins a towering wheel to a tall woven hive shape. The trees were tall and towering though there was a stump in the middle where a tree had been felled. In a taxi in Mumbai, she sat quietly on the back seat awestruck by the towering buildings almost touching the sky on either side of the road. Peeking out from around the building, he saw before him the towering Keep, surrounded by the inner walls. It wasn't the normal, dark, towering building, but a tall, skinny, grayish color that looked like it had rotted from the inside. I gave them each a glare and turned my attention towards the tall, towering doors that would soon open to reveal my parents. A stunned gaze caught sight of that old wreck of a home, seeing the outline of the tall and towering buildings just at the western horizon. Atop the mountain, more towering buildings reach up into a polluted blue sky. Show More Sentences It was now extremely dark as the towering, derelict offices clouded away the sky. The window screen was completely enveloped with the dull metal landscape of a huge city of towering buildings, no doubt Capital City. He was surrounded by tall skyscrapers, their towering heights lost in the inky blackness of a night sky. Although it lies surrounded by an imposing circle of towering mountains, Leh was an important place on the silk route to Yarkhand in China. To celebrate our towering achievement, here's a photographic tableau of the PDMG as it looked last Sunday, and very early on Monday morning. Short has underlined his importance to the squad with several towering performances since returning from a knee injury. Willie Ryan in the Portarlington back-line was a towering influence and had a great game. Tracks from a raft of towering, beautifully-crafted LPs bounced majestically off that famous low Fibbers ceiling. The 2003 festival is no exception, offering a towering series of art exhibitions and workshops. But given the towering importance of this issue and how it affects millions of workers directly, the turnout was scandalously small. For Brown, the goal was merely the most expressive part of a towering performance of assurance and influence. McGrath is a towering intellect and one of the leading theologians in modern evangelicalism. No, today is a day to celebrate the towering human spirit that exists in this one woman. Einstein is still a towering figure, Freud a very influential one, Marx has fallen on hard times. The album itself doesn't register as a towering artistic achievement, just a reasonably good set of pop songs. The world's largest economy has always been a towering influence over the direction of world stock markets. The second film in the trilogy is a towering achievement which actually surpasses the original in terms of spectacle, scale and emotion. Who transformed you from a lame-duck President appointed by the Supreme Court into a towering wartime leader? Nanda Devi is the patron Goddess of Gharwal and Kumaon and has been a towering influence on the culture of these twin mountain regions. It positively thunders from the speakers, rising to a towering, epic crescendo of hissing guitar and soaring choruses. Show More Sentences In that film, a towering epic of stupidity, the astronauts confront a bunch of super-lame CGI aliens who hold hands and cry. Several Union attacks had turned the once towering buildings to empty shells, not fit to live in. Suddenly we come across a huge expanse of startlingly blue water mirroring vermilion rocks and towering pinnacles. The towering man with short white hair walked quickly down the sidewalk as he spoke. The hall is lit by numerous great torch torches, towering over the tables on tripods. There were dozens of men in the crowd who'd clearly gone to considerable effort to cultivate the famous towering quiff and sideburns combo. When I approached the building, it sure didn't match the grand TV hospital drama-style towering monoliths of bustling health that I'd envisioned. Self-assured as opposed to unappealingly cocksure, Evolution Flight would be a towering achievement based on any criteria you chose to elect. The path wound its way through the mountains haphazardly, towering hulks of stone suspended high above them. Jessie then found himself aboard The Moonlight, the slaver with its towering sails and masts, cabins and storage space under the deck. It is in fact, a concrete jungle where towering high-rises, slums and resplendent Gothic buildings lie next to each other. The best way to see it is on foot, along the five-day Druk Path between Paro and Thimpu, camping against a backdrop of towering snowcaps. The formidable royal castle towering above the Danube still breathes the air of this era. Its songlike theme on the saxophone, reminiscent of a Red Indian incantation, leads to a towering and glowing climax. This spirited and vivacious cricketer is a fighter, a towering all-rounder in the making. Further afield there are grevilleas, burrawangs, tree ferns, huge native grass trees and towering gums to get lost in. The crowd, bursting with 3,500 Ireland supporters, crammed around a tiny field with a mountain towering behind one goal. When the towering pinnacles of Ben Mor and the Karakora Ranges loomed up across the spume, all aboard felt relief. Near the head of the loch I pitched my tent in splendid, silent solitude on a grassy terrace beneath rocky buttresses and towering ridges. And while he doesn't exactly pole vault and swing over the towering speaker cabinets anymore, he doesn't stay in one place either. Show More Sentences I gazed at the wine red brick buildings standing upon the hills, towering overhead. They've filled their almost-claustrophobic room with towering flower bouquets and perhaps a few too many obsequious waiters. Underneath a towering Ferris wheel, stalls were selling tasty treats including spicy samosas, candyfloss, and sweets. The cloying smell hit me when we entered the thick brush, canopied by towering pines. Here the land slopes down to the sea, forming complicated estuaries with the towering mountains of Achill Island just offshore. The forest canopy is a deep blue-green, tinged with pale-green old man's beard, uniformly towering above the mosses and berry bushes. Without a hostile Iraq towering over it, Jordan's pro-Western Hashemite monarchy would likely come into full bloom. Everywhere I turned there were immense trees towering above me, rainbows of exotically coloured blooms, and thick dark carpets of creeping moss. Then, she pointed at the towering hill and at herself, then stooped down and wrote in the sand with her finger. We're on a misty riverbank, with lush, flowering trees and towering storybook castles in the background. They were driven back by police and soldiers, and the coffin was taken in and placed on a towering catafalque. The plateau is rugged and interspersed with towering mountains and deep chasms. The fishcakes erred reassuringly on the enormous side, towering above a small pile of water cress salad and a pool of hollandaise sauce. Near the house, which bounds one side of the garden, she grows towering delphiniums and hollyhocks for their strong vertical interest. In the center of the parking lot was a towering white building, casting a shadow like a gargantuan sundial. On one side it was anchored by a huge chinaberry tree, on the other by a towering mimosa. Witnesses reported explosions as well as towering flames and a huge pall of black smoke at the scrapyard. These are three towering water chutes, in varying levels of steepness, down which you plunge in a rubber dinghy. The dark shape suddenly stood and stretched quickly, towering over the wrinkled old manuscripts and parchments. Take in the aroma of the towering spice trees whose barks provide cinnamon sticks, used to make delicious cocoa and spice tea. Show More Sentences The rising air cools and produces towering cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds. Another unsung hero has been a towering hulk who has made life miserable for opponents trying to stand in front of the San Jose net. A towering hulk of a man is vigorously hacking away at a formless lump of meat. Now you hear clearly the sound of the trains and see them towering over the park. The scenery is superb as we trek through breathtaking ice fields, shimmering turquoise lakes and incredible towering forests. It is sapphire against the pale silver wash of the sky and pewter against the amber of the towering hills that he adds in next. He indicated a colossal towering figure, easily thirteen foot high, meandering towards us along the wide roads. A true getaway with towering mountains and Caledonian pinewoods, this is one of the remotest valleys in Scotland. Gear later said that their genesis probably lay in the towering pitheads, woods and girders of his industrial childhood. The reception began under towering oak trees strung with lights, next to a fire pit. The Himalayas, towering as high as 8,854 m above sea level, form the highest continental mountains in the world. Gone are the towering heels of last summer, to be replaced by thick-tongued brogues, clunky flatforms and Birkenstock-style sandals. All around us are towering, glowering peaks rising with perfect irregularity from the flat, green waters of the fjord. The towering sculpture, made out of one piece of flawed marble, has been acclaimed internationally for its depiction of male beauty. With Barney Maher back in full flight and with the possible return of the towering Larry Keenan it will be a different ball game. Everything from towering palm trees to pine forests inhabited the island's varied ecosystems. The garden was in a yard about thirty meters by sixty, surrounded by the towering curtain wall with inward-facing crenellations. The beach is one of those long sweeping crescents of sand, book-ended by massive piles of granite boulders topped with towering Hoop Pines. A section of a towering croquembouche, cream puffs filled with custard and lassoed together with sugar, was humble and satisfying. The towering apartment blocks are empty, although residents were allowed in to empty their fridges and pick up supplies last week. Show More Sentences Around the same time, French women frizzed their hair with heat and then sculpted it to towering heights. The rising air is associated with a region of low air pressure, towering cumulonimbus clouds and rain. The family is scurrying for shelter while a towering funnel cloud advances relentlessly toward their home. Two fuzees and a gallon of fuel oil turn it into a thundering conflagration towering 40 feet over our heads. The towering spires, soaring vaults and sturdy columns of this Gothic church make it the cynosure of a visitor's eye. The earth movers are towering, terrifying machines, bigger than most of the concrete shanty houses they were sent in to destroy. A towering castle of mud has screaming faces and gargoyles sculpted into its crenellated turrets. A towering dawn redwood, planted in the 1940s, graces the Garden's oak and conifer knoll. A variety of flowers and plants including genistas, acacias, jonquils, tulips, and palms were placed at the base of the eight towering columns. For the uninitiated, the book is a good primer for those readers seeking an introduction to the work of this towering American intellectual. There was suddenly a huge woman in a white wrap dress printed with huge red watercolor roses towering over him. In their midst stood the prodigal son returned, the towering figure of Sajid Mahmood, built for bowling fast if ever anybody was. Bill is a man that is feared by all, and with his glass eye and towering top hat, he is as close as you can come to the devil incarnate. The towering striker is vital in linking his team's play and as a goalscorer, and he had put the Czechs ahead. Just below the cottage, amid towering deodars and blue pines, is a large rock. Tamil temples, with their towering gopurams, are well known in southern India. Their great pale grey slopes are breached all along the coast by a number of steep, rocky gorges with towering vertical walls. From this the reviewer assumed that I was black and on that assumption raised a towering edifice of racial criticism. His favourite photograph was one of a towering electricity pylon and a large graffiti mural in Mitcham town centre. The creature grows to a tremendous size, begins sucking down the exhaust from some towering smokestacks, and generally wreaks havoc. Show More Sentences We soon emerged out of the darkness of the towering vegetation and into a clearing. Whilst Craig has been blessed with a towering intellect, he is somewhat wanting when it comes to emotional intelligence. Bottlebrushes, gums and lillypillies, too numerous to mention here, also include splendid specimens of towering proportions in their genera. Strips of light streamed through forests of eucalyptuses and towering mountain ash. From the docks along the Eastern Seaway to the towering spires along the Western Peaks, the great city slowly rose from its slumber. And look at that towering cloud system around what was the eye wall of the tropical storm. He looks rather menacing with his thick, towering frame and a black downturned mustache that gives him a look of permanent annoyance. He can cut loose, smash and wallop the ball for towering sixes and delightful fours. Sheffield followed by taking him even deeper, walloping a towering homer into the upper left-field deck. The ocean, also rather achromatic, kissed the foundation of the towering building, spraying up to the pediment. To a whizz kid of such towering promise, it was a kick in the belly and a rabbit punch to the back of the head. On that summer league floor, James showed off the best of Magic Johnson's towering court vision, and had Jordan's lift to boot. The path winds through a legion of eerie stone figures, some towering 100 feet above. The elderly couple stared up at the towering weathered granite, a huge monolith that lay across the desert country like a recumbent lion. But then we got here and I saw how your own brethren in the Order have failed to appreciate your towering nobility. If towering long irons and fairway woods are the goal, I'm afraid no ball will restore your ego. Nature is busy at work even in a place of towering bricks and mortar with concrete sprawl. Eventually the crumbling brick and wood houses of the alleyways gave way to the great space of the mosque, its massive dome towering above us. Here, warm, lambent sunlight bathes a country road framed by towering trees. The landscapes look appealing, especially those of the lakes and towering trees in the famous forests of Malaysia. Show More Sentences The towering walls were covered with paintings of the world's most renowned artists. Out of towering brown churches came the blithe music of anthems from the choirs. Abruptly the storm was quiet for a moment until a bright flash of lightning revealed an enormous wave towering over the ship. Up from Baikal's shore, mountains rise sharply for a vertical mile, towering high as the canyon rim above the Colorado River. She quickly flashed him an appreciatory grin, and walked over to one of the towering shelves stuffed with books. The best linksland, by contrast, is sand-based with towering dunes and endless slopes. The drill is to charge downslope at the towering ramp and catapult off the top lip into a McTwist, a Rodeo Flip, or some other contortion. For instance, Trivedi points out that a towering metal sculpture designed by Pablo Picasso wouldn't be possible without arc welding. Azalea, violets and towering monkshood blended with the coastal wildflowers. I had imagined an open meadow, ringed and shaded by a few towering royal palms, maybe even a pine or two. With a last look at the towering column of black smoke, he followed Jordan, running at a steady lope through the woods. His two concurrent shows were the first substantial New York exposure for this towering figure in, astonishingly, nearly 30 years. The house, erected across four thick branches of a towering sapodilla tree is hidden among its lush, green leaves. Your back garden is full of majestic redwood trees, towering high above you. During the early hours of Sunday vandals overturned the towering scaffolding outside the school, causing flags and poles to crash into the road. The towering banana trees, giant bamboos and coconut palms were surrounded by endless varieties of smaller plants and flowers. The tiger stands towering at what looks like close to seven feet, and he's heavy and massive to boot. Kali's attributes include a third eye and smiling face surmounted by a towering headdress bristling with horns, pink lotus blossoms at her ears. Avery picked up her books and turned around to face a strongly built figure towering over her. We'll follow mountain-lion tracks and watch from remote plateaus as distant puffs of cloud build into towering thunderheads. Show More Sentences Their cheerful porcelain-white blossoms dance and dart in the autumn breezes, towering over the heucheras, tiarellas, and ferns at their feet. The corn that grows from the ground reached over his small body, the leaves tickled his shirtless body as he passed through the towering rows. So when such a towering figure has his memoirs published, it is a landmark event. And towering above them all, you have one of the dozens of cranes that continue to blot our capital's skyline, and no doubt will continue to do so for years to come. Other resonant images are created by mobile scenic contraptions that represent a row of field hands stooping to pick crops and a towering factory loom. Her landscapes range from sweeping panoramas in oils of mountains, lakes and towering coniferous trees to tropical beaches with bold greens and spirited blues. They're all heaped up in two towering piles, along with the old battening. It is certainly funny to see Owen towering over that mousey guy. I began to take photographs of the food on the table, the champagne flutes towering behind the chocolate truffles that I was already dying to eat. A towering perennial, which takes on a stately ghostliness by late autumn, it needs a sheltered spot away from strong winds, which might buffet the stems to breaking point. The welcoming committee is pure science fiction, a towering wind energy farm of sleek white windmills, five storeys high and filling the valley's entire widescreen width. Each tries to outdo the other and some of them are towering edifices. While, as towering buildings, churches even today have an intrinsic power, this exists because of their architecture rather than in the meaning they might convey to us. The skyline is dotted with towering cranes, hovering like hawks. Visions of exotic beauties like Nefertiti, legends of mummified pharaohs and the towering presence of the pyramids have made Egypt a fantasy place. They're not building towering skyscrapers of glass and steel in Brooklyn. From Moab, they will drive to Monument Valley, famous for the towering red buttes and mesas, which have formed the background for countless westerns. The South mill complex, with its towering 225 ft tall chimney, is empty and has fallen derelict while one grandiose scheme after another hit the dust. A team of rescue Sherpa evacuated the two men down through the towering seracs and debris to Base Camp where they were quickly flown to Kathmandu by helicopter. Ross vied for a monumental Joan Miro towering over five feet high but dropped out of the bidding. Show More Sentences There she saw a beech tree surrounded by towering, impressive oaks. The overcast sky and the foggy shoreline sandwiched the towering city behind them whilst the four travelers made their way down the beach to the water. As she gets up, towering over her three handlers, it is tough to imagine Davis ever wearing a pair of sweats. With those four words, the towering Swede, Dolph Lundgren, achieved film immortality. Her towering friend abruptly became more animated, seeing Maria entering the room and strolling over to her pigeonhole where an abundance of documents were stacked. Now then, kiddiewinks, a column about culture brought about by a collision of towering genius, modern technology, and a product of the modern education system. While the factory's existence is unmissable by its towering chimney that dominates the skyline, the location of its chalk quarry near the White Horse is rather more hidden. Roxie's never going to be a towering intellect, but she's one fun dame. The narrow paths are totally overhung by the branches of moss-covered trees and eventually open onto sheep pastures dominated by towering Scots Pines. The pillars roared upward like towering giants made of white alabaster. To the boy's surprise, it spread a pair of tan and gold wings that were prodigious in size, which caused it to appear as if it were towering over him. It stands towering over the landscape, the sun's rays glancing off the polished superstructure to dance upon the gently rippling waters of the canal below. Rabbi David Hartman, who passed away yesterday, was a towering educator and thinker. With two out in the fourth, the Yanks had Shane Spencer on second and Scott Brosius on first when Alfonso Soriano hit a towering pop fly in front of home plate. A little further downstream were towering red gums and grey gums. While driving along the winding and narrow Norwegian roads alongside a fjord we came to a massive glacier towering across the clearest expanse of pure turquoise water. The latter role is danced by Alain Honorez, a spindle-shanks of towering talents and demonic energy, who almost upstaged the leads with his dazzling display of movement. The sad truth is that she's barely mentioned in the 3,000 years of effigies and hieroglyphics that cover the towering columns, needle-like obelisks and endless sarcophagi. He finished the stencils in two hours, and, feeling a towering strength in his heretofore ordinary frame, immediately carried them upstairs to the mimeograph machine. Icebergs split off from the towering ice-cliffs with deafening roars. Show More Sentences Join us for five days of hiking around Uncompahgre and Wetterhorn Peaks, complete with deep valleys, rocky eminences, alpine tundra, and towering mountains. A commissionaire guides me through heavy wooden doors, past towering marble pillars into a vast circular entrance hall covered from floor to ceiling in intricate frescos. A stunning mosaic of the Last Supper, towering 80 ft over the altar, has also been cleaned and new lighting installed to bring the church back to life. Doctors are then on to the next patient, and between patients they are distracted by a towering mountain of non-clinical tasks. The city of Taos lies on the edge of the high desert in the Carson National Forest, amid squat juniper trees, prickly scrub grasses and towering evergreens. A towering cloud of black smoke flanked by soaring flames was visible for miles around, providing an awesome and menacing picture of the developing inferno. In early 2001 the Afghan Taliban, encouraged by al Qaeda, blew to bits the towering Buddhas of Bamiyan. Steep, heavily wooded slopes and towering waterfalls rushed down to the river bottom, where the sparkling flood mirrored the mountains and sky above. His towering header, from an inch-perfect Chris Billy free-kick, also signalled the opening of another vital goalscoring avenue for Andy Preece to exploit. Sky flower is a common name for golden dewdrop, a towering shrubby perennial with pendulous clusters of white, lavender or purple flowers followed by golden berries. The towering coco colada is mixed with icy bits and chunks of fruits. Initially in Norman style, it developed into a great Gothic cathedral with a towering spire, the largest church in England and third largest in Europe. Instead we should view promises, and other people's rights, as of such towering importance that they are basically invulnerable to the calculus of social interests. The towering central panel is set within a classical arch and shows the Virgin and Child enthroned, with the infant Saint John the Baptist to one side. In minutes, you could walk from the villagey downtown onto trails that switchbacked up the San Jacinto Mountains to palm oases and towering waterfalls hidden in canyons. As it funnelled through the bay outside Candahug, some witnesses put its height at a towering 16ft. Some religious faiths are towering achievements of human endeavour. Next door is a towering log, stone and glass masterpiece modeled after a Native American longhouse that may be the most dramatic place you've ever taken a yoga class. A short distance before Banyas, once a Phoenician port, 34 miles south of Latakia, we saw the enormous citadel of Marqab towering atop a mountain. The following day I climbed the 240-metre via ferrata to the summit of 2908-metre Piz da Lec, towering over Corvara, with not another soul in sight. Show More Sentences Its plaza principal is a huge site surrounded by towering structures. More prosaically, the Kombai tribe in remote Papua New Guinea swamps hoist their dwellings as much as 30m up towering sago palms to avoid enemies and repel mosquitoes. The enormous skyscrapers and attendant monorails were supplanted by palaces and town houses circumscribed by high walls, towering railings and tall trees. It has oak trees that are hundreds of years old, towering cottonwoods and sycamores and secluded areas where acres of trunk-to-trunk pecan trees haven't yet grown waist-high. The opening song sets the perfect tone for the whole album, combining sheer heaviness and technicality with a towering chorus that utilizes the full range of her voice. We devote four articles to this subject of towering importance. Even so, the Europeans were intruders, emerging by the score from their towering vessels, appearing and disappearing without warning, violating sacred sites. As you can imagine, my eyes lit up at this prospect and I began to balmily enjoy looking forward to the prospect of towering hills of white powder littering up the home. To anyone to whom Maxwell means anything the towering screes of Beinn Sgritheall stand as a natural monument, a lasting monument, to his achievements. Adrienne and her family live at Frontier House, a 1,100-acre tract of open Montana countryside ringed by towering mountains and veined with rushing streams. The monument's signature towering monoliths, spires, and steep canyons reflect millions of years of erosion, faulting, and tectonic plate movement. Experience the ancient mystical city of Ho Chi-Minh and its Eastern traditions, Buddha temples, towering pagodas and colorful oriental river markets. Blanc, though, faces a baptism of fire against Duncan Ferguson and Ferguson has warned the ex-French international what to expect from the towering Everton striker. An explorer stands dwarfed by towering ferns in the shadowy depths of Claustral Canyon in New South Wales, Australia. On either side the cliffs rose higher, and the walls of Jurassic rock, above the brashy steeps, more towering, precipitous, and fantastic. Rovers forward Roque Santa Cruz headed against the post after a flick-on by towering defender Chris Samba. Everything was a labyrinthine amalgam of languages, a towering Babel of puns and glossolalia. What Americans call a goat-fuck, an unstable, tottering, towering pile of photographers and TV crews, had appeared. Terrestrial flora reached its climax in the Carboniferous, when towering lycopsid rainforests dominated the tropical belt of Euramerica. The folded Cape Supergroup formed the northern foothills of this towering mountain range. Show More Sentences They generally extended horizontally as opposed to the towering Maya pyramids, and often had restricted access. Sharad Pawar, who had been a towering figure in Maharashtrian and national politics, belongs to this group. From the towering stadium lights, to the warning track and grand acoustics, this was something different. Kiln-fired bricks were invented by the Mesopotamians to create the complex towering ziggurats of the Sumerian and Babylonian empires. New Zealand's Southern Alps form a towering backbone to the long land mass of South Island. If your children want to win prizes for the biggest sunflower, the variety to go for is Russian Giant, a towering three-metre superplant. Two casitas, tucked away under towering salt cedar and the spacious homestead house are also available at extra cost. Day-Lewis won his second best actor award, this time for his towering performance as a malevolent oilman in There Will Be Blood. Day-Lewis, 50, won his second best actor Academy Award for his towering performance as a ruthless, malevolent oilman in There Will Be Blood. Kiwi fly half Kim Pickard put the opposition under constant pressure with several towering up-and-unders. I dig deeper with the paddle and watch the mountain and its towering cumulous. Under pressure from the towering presence of Diarra, home keeper Alexander Vencel could only punch Barmby's corner from the left flank. The factory is a towering leviathan in the middle of the town. Josef Bohuslav Foerster is undoubtedly one of the towering figures of Czech culture. The towering centre-back used selective memory as a deflective tactic when trying to steer the talk away from personal disappointments. Shigatse is home to Tashilhunpo Monastery, seat of the Panchen Lama, and home to a towering statue of the Maitreya Buddha. We, in olden days, had towering kooks and colossal villains. Give the clumpy combat boots a miss and always accessorise with towering heels. The grain elevators are towering symbols of our rich industrial history and proud roll-up-the-sleeves and get things done workforce. In between lies a desert landscape with a charming lighthouse, windmills, towering cacti and twisted divi-divi trees. Show More Sentences The pinetum is a place that will take your breath away, with towering North American conifers. Plantings are invariably mixed, with towering heliconias growing cheek by jowl with ginger lilies, orchids, dracaenas, cordylines and palms. George Storey discovered watering the flowers with his Big Lamp beer turned his humble helianthus into a towering triffid. Choi fouled off the first pitch he saw in the first inning, then homered on a towering fly ball to right field. Nothing more than a stack of towering chimneys, which are known in the trade as hyperboloids, each one is 656ft tall and 1,027m in diameter. The Fairfield group lies to the south of the range, and forms a similar pattern with towering rock faces and hidden valleys spilling into the Patterdale valley. The building is modest in scale and fits well into its surroundings, though its towering clerestories offer a reminder that this is a workplace and not a suburban villa. In addition to many birds, she has spied two hedgehogs in the borders and Roland, the resident tree rat, is a regular in the towering Washingtonia. The Blues' Nigerian striker produced a towering display in Sunday's derby match, just days after his mountain climbing technique also raised spirits in the Blues camp. The building, towering over its surroundings with its square concrete frame and reflective walls of gold-tinted glass, was an eyesore visible throughout the city. So, my radioman, George Dreisbach, and I took off in a TBM Avenger for the quiet little auxiliary air station at the base of the towering Sierra mountain range. They are connected to a towering cumuliform cloud or a cumulonimbus cloud. Josh Robinson headed the Crues into a first-half lead before Owens bagged his first on 65 minutes with a towering header from a Robinson free-kick. The grounds, encircled by towering palms and lush with bougainvillea, lavender, salvia, creeping thyme, rosemary and lantana, are seductively lit. Diving for the best part of 40 minutes I was treated to an overload of colour and beauty, from tiny clown fish to towering sea fans, reaching out into the blue abyss. One of the costumes is a bizarre bodysuit which will feature real guitars on the leotard and a piano keyboard as her headpiece, teamed with signature towering heels. The real Stonehenge, near Salisbury, dates back more than 2,500 years and includes towering stones called sarsens, standing more than 4m tall and weighing 25 tonnes. The Pics were put onto the back foot early on when a towering header from Dean Lisles put the home side ahead following a corner from the right hand side. An exquisite mix of towering mountains, golden beaches and sparkling turquoise seas, the 115 islands of the Republic of Seychelles lie some 930 miles east of mainland Africa. The east side facade is of rubble, studded with small windows and mannered details, while the harled rear wall forms, as completed, a towering, roughly symmetrical grouping. Show More Sentences Europe's biggest sandcastle, the towering Dune de Pyla, with 154 steps, is just half-an-hour further west down the coast and parking is pounds 3 all day. Scheduled, too, during the tour... is a visit to Big Bend Country, where jagged canyons cutting among towering limestone cliffs offer whitewater rafting on the Rio Grande. We fed the campfire until it became a towering inferno before us. Palmer parted the towering saltgrass and pickleweed downwind of the elk. The islands of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, are rich in towering trees that until 1985 were in danger of disappearing because of massive logging efforts. They were decorated with towering glass vases filled with pink and yellow Gerbera daisies, Stargazer lilies, pink Freesia, white Fuji mums, and bells of Ireland. Peter sighted a towering peak on the Alaska mainland, Mount Saint Elias. With fairways situated atop cliffs towering above the Pacific, golfers marvel at the views of the coastline, the ocean surf, deep ravines, and daring hang-gliders. The women wore as a headpiece the towering fontanges of the 17th century encrusted with diamonds and the royal baby was presented to us with a flourish. Examples from Classical Literature Beyond a mile of open ground, flooded by uda's silver rays, stood the towering stone walls of Ammad. You look up on either side to the towering cliffs, and feel like a water beetle in the bottom of a gigantic cup. Look at the first twenty people that come towering by on the roof of a highflier or a Defiance. They saw the keddah sahib towering above the fighting mob, his spread arms raised as if exhorting them to desist from strife. With this he identified the snowy range of mountains now towering on our left as the Nan Shan, northernmost bastion of Tibet. At the end of the newsroom, where the exit should have been, rose a towering barrier of flames. But they couldn't spoil the sunset, and Medinet was a colourful picture of the Orient, towering against the crimson west. There is many another towering mountain with its set of pilgrims, but none can vie with fujiyama for majestic grace. He stepped nearer, and towering over her, he took hold of her shoulders in a powerful grasp and looked down upon her dominantly. The next day left the track and struck through the huge towering forest and jungly undergrowth by compass. Behind this front lay wykeham's Quad, nestling under the shadow of the towering chapel and hall on the north side. Find more words! 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