Example sentences for: towering

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

  • Very soon he was touring the country, bringing back new ideas about line and volume, as in Telegraph Poles, Texas (1915): some stripped trees leaning over, bearing aloft a neat grid of wires, towering over flatland and stumpy shacks.

  • She challenged the ugly human desire to be towering and dominant.

  • The rocky outcrops and sometimes towering waves on the east contrast with calm waters and sandy flats on the west.

  • The landscape beyond the palace compound features many of the romantic elements of Chinese tradition: interconnected lakes and lotus ponds, forests, causeways and arched bridges, ornate pavilions, and towering pagodas.

  • Out in the bay — towering over the entire peninsula — is Japan’s most notoriously active volcano, the huge three-coned Sakurajima, which sends up tremendous black and white clouds of ash and steam.


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