How to Use towering in a Sentence

towering

adjective

• He flew into a towering rage.
• Workers had to cut out part of the wall to get the towering screen inside.
  — Cortlynn Stark, kansascity, 11 July 2018
• At 6-foot-4, Gusters cuts a towering figure in the post.
  — Usa Today High School Sports, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2020
• There are many reasons some people can’t seem to get a grip on the towering piles of things in their life.
  — Jura Koncius, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018
• There’s the golden, baroque Schoenbrunn Palace, and the towering cathedral of St. Stephen’s.
  — Kate Krader, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• Ex-Cal star Jaylen Brown has been a towering presence for weeks.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 May 2018
• Footage filmed by Doulaye Bonkano showed the towering wall of sand overtaking the city of Niamey.
  — Fox News, 6 May 2020
• For some years, the school still had towering stacks of unsold yearbooks.
  — Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 11 July 2018
• The notice that the towering units had reached the end of their useful life and were now just 1.9 million pounds of scrap steel was routine.
  — al, 8 May 2020
• The towering figure of Courtois in net would likely be enough to prevent the goals on his own.
  — SI.com, 27 June 2019
• Mike Zunino led off the second with his 12th homer of the season — a towering solo drive to left.
  — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 5 July 2017
• At the mouth of the Shark River, where towering stands of mangroves hug the river banks, trees were stripped of their leaves, but few were toppled.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 15 Sep. 2017
• Pell had been a towering figure in Rome until 2017, when the charges were first announced.
  — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
• After the flower dies, the plant will grown a single massive leaf on a towering stalk.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 18 Apr. 2018
• Past years have seen a pirate ship, complete with a towering mast.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 7 July 2017
• The song proved to be a towering achievement of psychedelic rock at a time when the genre was taking off.
  — cleveland, 4 Mar. 2020
• Trains go around and even inside the towering structure.
  — Barbara Henry, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 June 2018
• His towering presence will be missed but his legacy will live on with us all.
  — NBC News, 17 Oct. 2019
• From the marsh, move along through Inwood Hill Park, which is marked with one to two mile trails that are roughly paved and lead you past old, towering trees.
  — New York Times, 21 Aug. 2019
• Light pours through a towering floor-to- ceiling window, bringing out the green in her eyes.
  — Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 17 Nov. 2015
• The valley is also renowned for its ancient forest, with many of the towering trees more than 200 years old.
  — National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2019
• Cohan's song received the towering song award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 4 July 2019
• In 10 minutes, the bright spot behind the trees transformed into a towering, roaring blob that began to move to the left.
  — Paige St. John, latimes.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• His towering life was overshadowed only by the myth that emerged with his death.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2017
• An American flag on a towering pole flutters in the breeze.
  — Jonathan Levin, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• The towering presence of Verrückt will likely serve as a reminder of Caleb’s death when the park opens for business this week.
  — Steve Vockrodt, kansascity.com, 22 May 2017
• As many as 200 of the lanky white birds are flopping awkwardly in the tops of the towering trees, roosting, squawking, falling out of nests.
  — Robert Cadwallader, star-telegram.com, 3 July 2017
• The towering skyline of San Francisco glittered to the northeast, close but a world away.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 15 Feb. 2020
• After the Yankees tied the game in the sixth, the A’s regained the lead in the bottom of the inning off Yonder Alonso’s 17th home run of the season, a towering drive to dead center.
  — Paul Gackle, The Mercury News, 16 June 2017
• The garden is near the towering World War I monument, uphill from the bandshell.
  — Don Stacom, Courant Community, 13 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024