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    Use "towering" in a sentence

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    towering


    1. A modern apartment complex surrounded by towering palms somewhere in the Los Angeles area


    2. dominion of the fromboise assault, there stood man-size thistles and towering clumps


    3. ramshackle collection of maybe 100 tin shacks clustered in the desert between a pocket of towering rock mountains


    4. debates and the huge, towering hopes that lead all men down to a straw bed


    5. With Byram Hermosa from the shop, he cruised down the narrow canal between the thick roots of towering apartment trees and into the open lake, bound for the Yakhan, determined to cover the fifteen hundred miles in a native week


    6. On the wall, half way along and to her right a security light shone weakly from behind its cage, singing a song of light as plaintive as the lark held captive beneath a towering sky


    7. He tried to remember; revolution, committees and sections, the great debates and the huge, towering hopes that lead all men down to a straw bed


    8. beneath towering pillars of flame and the grind


    9. As soon as he said this there was a sound like thunder at the back of the stage, followed immediately by the appearance of a towering wall of smoke and dry ice


    10. erected and all who read the towering texts that carried his name

    11. Their combined momentum yanked Harry from his feet; he released his grip on the staff at the perfect instant and in a towering tucked back flip, flew spinning over the hyacinth-rimmed pond and landed one-footed onto a bench


    12. Blackforest was a brooding expanse of towering


    13. When they emerged on the other side, greeted by towering purple and red sandstone cliffs, plunging over one was a shimmering blue ribbon of water, into a motionless pond below


    14. the waterfall and towering mountains in the background,


    15. The Boulder Lords continued to gather nearby stones, and had created several towering stacks along the edge of the wall


    16. valley, but was highlighting the tips of the towering


    17. Towering above them, a smear of darkness drew near


    18. His mind often wandering to thoughts of bloodied flesh on his tongue, Anon drew nearer to the towering trunk of the Dead Tree


    19. grew on the horizon, towering ever higher


    20. I told Andrastus that I hoped to find it somewhere along the towering heights

    21. “Now I the strength of Heracles behold, a towering specter of gigantic mold


    22. A towering specter of gigantic mold


    23. He surfaced from his daydreaming and looked up at her towering above him where she stood next to the bath


    24. We felt His promise of revenge each time a towering whitecap broke against our planks


    25. The Fixer looks at the towering stack of plates on


    26. ” Darniil gestured with his hands to indicate the massive statue towering above them


    27. “Oh, she was scared at first at the sight of her towering grandfather, but after a day or two the two of them got on like a house on fire


    28. Two days before the Feast of the New Moon, Nebuchadnezzar’s towering image of gold was completed


    29. The towering automaton would hiss and clank and grumble as it staggered, possessed by uncanny determination to stay on its feet and to keep fighting


    30. Finally the blood flow stopped as the huge beast now stood towering over the terrified terrier

    31. city in spite of the heat while hundreds of white citizens hidden inside the buildings gazed upon this towering president


    32. She had cared for him, yet it had been that simple song from her own lips that had allowed Raven, the underdog, the unknown, to conquer the towering figure


    33. A double row of five metre tall electric fences stood before a towering brick wall, watchtowers dotted at fifty metre intervals, guards sitting armed and alert, observing everything before them


    34. Raven closed his lips together as he sat on the floor beneath the towering warden


    35. Amaranthe had anticipated towering, monosyllabic guards led by a sadistic, whip-cracking overseer who had not seen the sun in twenty years


    36. By day, the towering building that housed the Maze loomed silent and lifeless


    37. Their tops were towering high up into the air and looked like a bunch of cauliflower burnt black in a hot oven


    38. The grass was high and prickly, its tallest tips towering over Stelze�s neck


    39. That I may bring down all these high walls and towering steeples!


    40. The location for the hotel couldn’t be better on the skirt of deep gorge with towering, jungle-covered mountains opposite, superb stables and the inn was anything but shabby

    41. He was no longer towering over me, but his face was much closer to mine, which only scrambled my scattered wits even more


    42. His fiery rounds were directed under the big oaks and towering conifers on the south side of the enemy aerodrome


    43. Towering pyramids in the sky, deltas and triangles, like living crystals, growing in random patterns


    44. He raced through towering piles of logs to the center lane where Raul had been bound


    45. Towering cumulus clouds, their bottoms flat and appearing close to the water, were scattered about an otherwise unblemished blue sky, but not one offered shade to El Tiburón Limon


    46. As the earth scoured away from under this now-raging torrent, it morphed into an ever more towering waterfall which, in its turn, wore away the base of the natural dam until, with an earthshaking shudder, it collapsed entirely


    47. I remember tuning in, as I usually did, for the morning news when a reporter came on, excitedly talking about a fire in one of the twin towers, those two American equivalents to Egypt’s towering obelisks


    48. the city which came into view above, towering and luminous skyscrapers, his face


    49. They were also both very tall, towering over the Koryo and most of the others on board


    50. As I mentioned before, it would have been hard for him not to spot me towering in a sea of Maya












































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    Synonyms for "towering"

    eminent lofty soaring towering elevated tall great overwhelming monumental imposing stately

    "towering" definitions

    of imposing height; especially standing out above others