Example sentences for: spire

How can you use “spire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One of the city’s more bizarre monuments is the Mole Antonelliana, with its swordfish-like 167-m- (547-ft-) high granite spire, named after its engineer designer Alessandro Antonelli.

  • Twelve towers, four at each portal, are to represent the Apostles; four higher ones, the Evangelists; a dome over the apse, the Virgin; and the central spire, the Savior.

  • The Scott Monument is a huge, stone Gothic structure with four buttresses supporting a spire.

  • The promenade winds along the beaches of El Fuerte and Fontanilla, passing a marina (Puerto Deportivo) with moorings for several hundred pleasure boats, overlooked by the tall spire of the lighthouse.

  • Set back behind tall trees off the rue des Jardins, the Anglican Holy Trinity Cathedral of 1804, with its elegant spire, will be familiar to Londoners for its respectful imitation of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.


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