towering
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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.
example
We devote four articles to this subject of 'towering' importance.
Willie Ryan in the Portarlington back-line was a 'towering' influence and had a great game.
The album itself doesn't register as a 'towering' artistic achievement, just a reasonably good set of pop songs.
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.
For ever since I saw that birthday cake - 'towering' and tall - I have never been able to replicate its height.
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.
He was surrounded by tall skyscrapers, their 'towering' heights lost in the inky blackness of a night sky.
The castle was a pure sandstone building with enormous 'towering' pillars and high arches and courtyards.
At a 'towering' two metres tall, her portrait dominates one of the principal rooms of the National Gallery of Scotland with an imperial presence.
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.
The 2003 festival is no exception, offering a 'towering' series of art exhibitions and workshops.
It is broad daylight, and the Professor is peering through rain-soaked windows at 'towering' black canyons so tall they blot out the sky.
Peeking out from around the building, he saw before him the 'towering' Keep, surrounded by the inner walls.
Nanda Devi is the patron Goddess of Gharwal and Kumaon and has been a 'towering' influence on the culture of these twin mountain regions.
I gave them each a glare and turned my attention towards the tall, 'towering' doors that would soon open to reveal my parents.
Atop the mountain, more 'towering' buildings reach up into a polluted blue sky.
No, today is a day to celebrate the 'towering' human spirit that exists in this one woman.
It wasn't the normal, dark, 'towering' building, but a tall, skinny, grayish color that looked like it had rotted from the inside.
Short has underlined his importance to the squad with several 'towering' performances since returning from a knee injury.
McGrath is a 'towering' intellect and one of the leading theologians in modern evangelicalism.
Two very different comedians, two 'towering' influences the impish Carson and the caustic Pryor, passed away in 2005.
Tracks from a raft of 'towering' , beautifully-crafted LPs bounced majestically off that famous low Fibbers ceiling.
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.
Einstein is still a 'towering' figure, Freud a very influential one, Marx has fallen on hard times.
For Brown, the goal was merely the most expressive part of a 'towering' performance of assurance and influence.
The world's largest economy has always been a 'towering' influence over the direction of world stock markets.
To celebrate our 'towering' achievement, here's a photographic tableau of the PDMG as it looked last Sunday, and very early on Monday morning.
It positively thunders from the speakers, rising to a 'towering' , epic crescendo of hissing guitar and soaring choruses.
Its plaza principal is a huge site surrounded by 'towering' structures.
The trees were tall and 'towering' though there was a stump in the middle where a tree had been felled.
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