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18 example sentences for STEEPLE, such as:
1. Orthodox Christian church often has elaborate steeple.
2. At length the high white steeple of the town met my eyes.
3. It was as old as the church, and built of the same stone, but it had no steeple.
4. Ambition was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the steeple.
5. He appeared as tall as an ordinary spire steeple, and took about ten yards at every stride, as near as I could guess.
2. At length the high white steeple of the town met my eyes.
3. It was as old as the church, and built of the same stone, but it had no steeple.
4. Ambition was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the steeple.
5. He appeared as tall as an ordinary spire steeple, and took about ten yards at every stride, as near as I could guess.
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Meanings and Examples of STEEPLE
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steeple
n. a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 At length the high white steeple of the town met my eyes.
2 Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated the sixth hour.
3 I carefully traced the windings of the land and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory.
4 There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.
5 He needed some solace, doling out preachments to asthmatic elders, perpetually repairing the perpetually falling steeple, by means of placards nailed to Barns.
6 It was as old as the church, and built of the same stone, but it had no steeple.
7 The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.
8 The Congregational chapel, which thought itself superior, was built of rusticated sandstone and had a steeple, but not a very high one.
9 And now I can recall the picture of the grey old house of God rising calm before me, of a rook wheeling round the steeple, of a ruddy morning sky beyond.
10 He appeared as tall as an ordinary spire steeple, and took about ten yards at every stride, as near as I could guess.
11 Upon that the lean, long, and red-bearded Uncle Mitai mounted the shaft horse; in which position he looked like a village steeple or the winder which is used to raise water from wells.
12 Indeed, only when the sunlight touches a steeple to gold does one realise that each such patch is a human settlement.
13 Ambition was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the steeple.
14 One o'clock was striking from the Vaugirard steeple when Enjolras reached the Richefeu smoking-room.
15 The church's high-backed, uncushioned pews would seat about three hundred persons; the edifice was but a small, plain affair, with a sort of pine board tree-box on top of it for a steeple.
Example Sentence:
1 Orthodox Christian church often has elaborate steeple.