towering
tinggi
definition
verb
he seemed to tower over everyone else
rise to or reach a great height.
The big ticket item was a US Air Force B1 Bomber, which towered over the surrounding displays like a massive bird of prey.
(of a bird) soar to a great height, especially (of a falcon) so as to be able to swoop down on the quarry.
adjective
Hari looked up at the towering buildings
extremely tall, especially in comparison with the surroundings.
translation of 'towering'
adjective
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example
He was surrounded by tall skyscrapers, their 'towering' heights lost in the inky blackness of a night sky.
Its plaza principal is a huge site surrounded by 'towering' structures.
It is broad daylight, and the Professor is peering through rain-soaked windows at 'towering' black canyons so tall they blot out the sky.
It positively thunders from the speakers, rising to a 'towering' , epic crescendo of hissing guitar and soaring choruses.
We devote four articles to this subject of 'towering' importance.
The trees were tall and 'towering' though there was a stump in the middle where a tree had been felled.
The 2003 festival is no exception, offering a 'towering' series of art exhibitions and workshops.
It was now extremely dark as the 'towering' , derelict offices clouded away the sky.
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.
Legendary rock guitarist Gary Moore returns from a bout of the blues to his roots and, like the title of the album, he bares his soul and his 'towering' talents with something a few riffs short of a musical masterpiece.
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.
Willie Ryan in the Portarlington back-line was a 'towering' influence and had a great game.
Two very different comedians, two 'towering' influences the impish Carson and the caustic Pryor, passed away in 2005.
To celebrate our 'towering' achievement, here's a photographic tableau of the PDMG as it looked last Sunday, and very early on Monday morning.
An old upright Yankee patrician, a very gentle man in the office of secretary of war, one Henry Stimson, told the president of his good fortune in having for the job a soldier of such 'towering' eminence.
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 enormous skyscrapers and attendant monorails were supplanted by palaces and town houses circumscribed by high walls, 'towering' railings and tall trees.
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.
For ever since I saw that birthday cake - 'towering' and tall - I have never been able to replicate its height.
The second film in the trilogy is a 'towering' achievement which actually surpasses the original in terms of spectacle, scale and emotion.
The world's largest economy has always been a 'towering' influence over the direction of world stock markets.
It wasn't the normal, dark, 'towering' building, but a tall, skinny, grayish color that looked like it had rotted from the inside.
But given the 'towering' importance of this issue and how it affects millions of workers directly, the turnout was scandalously small.
In that film, a 'towering' epic of stupidity, the astronauts confront a bunch of super-lame CGI aliens who hold hands and cry.
I gave them each a glare and turned my attention towards the tall, 'towering' doors that would soon open to reveal my parents.
The window screen was completely enveloped with the dull metal landscape of a huge city of 'towering' buildings, no doubt Capital City.
Nanda Devi is the patron Goddess of Gharwal and Kumaon and has been a 'towering' influence on the culture of these twin mountain regions.
Atop the mountain, more 'towering' buildings reach up into a polluted blue sky.
Who transformed you from a lame-duck President appointed by the Supreme Court into a 'towering' wartime leader?
Although it lies surrounded by an imposing circle of 'towering' mountains, Leh was an important place on the silk route to Yarkhand in China.
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