Example sentences for: spire

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Designed after the temple at Bodh Gaya in India where Buddha reached enlightenment, this soaring spire boasts an image of Buddha on each one of its bricks.

  • In the second quad, the colossal pillars of the Widener Library face across the green to the Memorial Church, which has an elegant white spire peeping out above the foliage.


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