Example sentences for: tall

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

  • On one occasion when he was forced from power, Peisistratus dressed a tall, beautiful country girl to look like the goddess Athena, and then entered Athens in triumph with the “goddess” leading his procession.

  • The nuns had identical bright robes, glasses, and shaved heads, and were each less than five feet tall, so the papers go more for laughs than they otherwise might.

  • The elephant grass along the several rivers in the park is so tall that only from an elephant’s back can you spot rhinos, deer, and other creatures, most of which are used to seeing elephants and do not run from them.

  • So are the dikes, so tall they cut off the view of the river from the embankment.

  • Plaça de Sant Josep Oriol adjoins Plaça del Pi, on which sits Santa María del Pi, a handsome church with a tall octagonal bell tower and a harmonious façade pierced by a large 15th-century rose window.


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