How to Use bell tower in a Sentence

bell tower

noun
  • The tornado tore the roof off the chapel and smashed the bell tower.
    CBS News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • From the base of the bell tower to the top of the flagpole, the building ascends 393 feet in the air.
    Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
  • When the spire was added on the bell tower in 1892, the church was the tallest building in Detroit.
    Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2018
  • The bell tower is one of the last pieces of a plan for the cemetery adopted years ago.
    Alaska Dispatch News, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The group sent me a photo of the school’s mission-style bell tower.
    oregonlive, 19 July 2021
  • In recent decades, the bell tower poking out of the lake has drawn tourists from around the world.
    Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2021
  • According to a plaque that is on the wall of the bell tower at the town’s first church at 9906 Maine Ave.
    Karen Pearlman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 May 2018
  • The desert-brown church with the tall bell tower was filled to overflowing.
    Nathan Ellgren, Adriana Gomez Licon and Jim Salter, Anchorage Daily News, 1 June 2022
  • There’s a tour of the bell tower the second and fourth Wednesday of the month during the summer months.
    Travel Wisconsin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2019
  • It is hoped that a simple bell tower can be erected for the bell.
    Sam Boyer, cleveland, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Outside the church on Tuesday, a Jumbotron was placed in front of the bell tower of the church and will stream the funeral.
    Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 23 June 2020
  • The fire could be seen raging in the bell tower as firefighters worked.
    Alex Chhith, Star Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Brady had been sitting in section C30 near the bell tower.
    Max Filby, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
  • In the city of Lausanne, near the French border, a watchman climbs to the top of a cathedral’s bell tower to call out the time every hour.
    Jen Kirby, Vox, 14 June 2019
  • When the fire was over, the only remaining parts of the church were the stone walls, a Civil War memorial in the narthex and the bell tower.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2018
  • What's thought to be the old bell is now housed in a new bell tower at the elementary's entrance.
    Lily Altavena, azcentral, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The chapel's bell tower rang out across the valley until the congregation moved out in the 1950s.
    Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Marvel at the grandeur of Agios Dionysios Church and its bell tower.
    Helen Iatrou, Travel + Leisure, 16 May 2024
  • Minarets pierce the city's skyline like proud exclamation points, while the bell tower of the Catholic church soars over them.
    Rick Steves, miamiherald, 24 May 2018
  • The fate of the bell tower – built in 1895 and overlooking Washington Park – has been in limbo for more than a year.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Coleman noted that the new bell tower will be a replica but would not be in the same location as the first.
    Jane Bellmyer, Baltimore Sun, 28 Nov. 2022
  • During the first year, a friend of the church made an anonymous gift of a new carillon (bell tower) and organ.
    Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Sep. 2021
  • So far, members have restored the bell tower and front doors and replaced the cedar shutters, which had not been in place since 1896.
    Sam Boyer, cleveland, 25 June 2021
  • Not a burger so much as a bell tower of beef, ringing to the tune of $9.50, still less than a lot of burgers nowhere near this level.
    Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 13 Feb. 2020
  • And in the grandest of the same would be elements found in Palm Beach masterworks: minarets, domes, bell towers.
    John Dolen, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • At the far right, the bell tower of a distant town pierces the incandescent horizon, poised to toll and announce the arrival of a new day.
    Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Cincinnati City Council could provide the funds needed to save a historic bell tower in Over-the-Rhine.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 7 June 2021
  • By midafternoon, only the bell tower was left standing amid the ruins.
    Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2021
  • The cathedral at Christchurch began ringing its bells to welcome the birds, but an earthquake in 2011 toppled the bell tower.
    Jim Robbins, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The morning can continue with a climb to San Giorgio island’s bell tower.
    Maddalena Fossati, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2024

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