How to Use towering in a Sentence

towering

adjective
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  • Workers had to cut out part of the wall to get the towering screen inside.
    — Cortlynn Stark, kansascity, 11 July 2018
  • At 6-foot-4, Gusters cuts a towering figure in the post.
    — Usa Today High School Sports, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2020
  • There are many reasons some people can’t seem to get a grip on the towering piles of things in their life.
    — Jura Koncius, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018
  • There’s the golden, baroque Schoenbrunn Palace, and the towering cathedral of St. Stephen’s.
    — Kate Krader, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
  • Ex-Cal star Jaylen Brown has been a towering presence for weeks.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 May 2018
  • Footage filmed by Doulaye Bonkano showed the towering wall of sand overtaking the city of Niamey.
    — Fox News, 6 May 2020
  • For some years, the school still had towering stacks of unsold yearbooks.
    — Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 11 July 2018
  • The notice that the towering units had reached the end of their useful life and were now just 1.9 million pounds of scrap steel was routine.
    — al, 8 May 2020
  • The towering figure of Courtois in net would likely be enough to prevent the goals on his own.
    — SI.com, 27 June 2019
  • Mike Zunino led off the second with his 12th homer of the season — a towering solo drive to left.
    — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 5 July 2017
  • At the mouth of the Shark River, where towering stands of mangroves hug the river banks, trees were stripped of their leaves, but few were toppled.
    — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Pell had been a towering figure in Rome until 2017, when the charges were first announced.
    — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
  • After the flower dies, the plant will grown a single massive leaf on a towering stalk.
    — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Past years have seen a pirate ship, complete with a towering mast.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 7 July 2017
  • The song proved to be a towering achievement of psychedelic rock at a time when the genre was taking off.
    — cleveland, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Trains go around and even inside the towering structure.
    — Barbara Henry, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 June 2018
  • His towering presence will be missed but his legacy will live on with us all.
    — NBC News, 17 Oct. 2019
  • From the marsh, move along through Inwood Hill Park, which is marked with one to two mile trails that are roughly paved and lead you past old, towering trees.
    — New York Times, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Light pours through a towering floor-to- ceiling window, bringing out the green in her eyes.
    — Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 17 Nov. 2015
  • The valley is also renowned for its ancient forest, with many of the towering trees more than 200 years old.
    — National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2019
  • Cohan's song received the towering song award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 4 July 2019
  • In 10 minutes, the bright spot behind the trees transformed into a towering, roaring blob that began to move to the left.
    — Paige St. John, latimes.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • His towering life was overshadowed only by the myth that emerged with his death.
    — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2017
  • An American flag on a towering pole flutters in the breeze.
    — Jonathan Levin, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • The towering presence of Verrückt will likely serve as a reminder of Caleb’s death when the park opens for business this week.
    — Steve Vockrodt, kansascity.com, 22 May 2017
  • As many as 200 of the lanky white birds are flopping awkwardly in the tops of the towering trees, roosting, squawking, falling out of nests.
    — Robert Cadwallader, star-telegram.com, 3 July 2017
  • The towering skyline of San Francisco glittered to the northeast, close but a world away.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 15 Feb. 2020
  • After the Yankees tied the game in the sixth, the A’s regained the lead in the bottom of the inning off Yonder Alonso’s 17th home run of the season, a towering drive to dead center.
    — Paul Gackle, The Mercury News, 16 June 2017
  • The garden is near the towering World War I monument, uphill from the bandshell.
    — Don Stacom, Courant Community, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The towering legacy of Star Wars is also the franchise's greatest curse.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2018

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