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

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024