TOWER in a Sentence

Learn TOWER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
146 example sentences for TOWER, such as:
1. The tower bells chime every hour.
2. The clock on the church tower said nine o'clock.
3. A notable feature of the church is its unusual bell tower.
4. The church tower was a prominent feature in the landscape.
5. The size of the office tower belittles the surrounding buildings.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of TOWER
tower
 v.  appear very large or occupy a commanding position
 n.  anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower
Classic Sentence: (115 in 8 pages)
1  One solitary tower only, and some remains of a wall, show where the castle once stood.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK
2  So she roved about by herself, and looked at all the rooms and chambers, till at last she came to an old tower, to which there was a narrow staircase ending with a little door.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In BRIAR ROSE
3  When she was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest, and had neither stairs nor door, but quite at the top was a little window.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In RAPUNZEL
4  After a year or two, it came to pass that the king's son rode through the forest and passed by the tower.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In RAPUNZEL
5  The king's son wanted to climb up to her, and looked for the door of the tower, but none was to be found.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In RAPUNZEL
6  The king's son was beside himself with pain, and in his despair he leapt down from the tower.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In RAPUNZEL
7  He went to the tower in which his mother was confined, and as it was so high, he wished for a ladder which would reach up to the very top.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE PINK
8  And the king sent two waiting-maids and two attendants into the tower, to fetch the queen and bring her to the royal table.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE PINK
9  As he himself would have it so, they gave him some food for the wild animals, and led him down to the tower.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE THREE LANGUAGES
10  He soon saw that the vessel, with the wind dead ahead, was tacking between the Chateau d'If and the tower of Planier.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
11  These are our arms, that is, those of my father, but they are, as you see, joined to another shield, which has gules, a silver tower, which are my mother's.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 41. The Presentation.
12  Monte Cristo entered the tower, which was divided into three stories.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice tha...
13  The tower contained implements, such as spades, rakes, watering-pots, hung against the wall; this was all the furniture.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice tha...
14  It had a high mansard roof with a picket fence on top and a tower made of fancy shingles at each end.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
15  Through the long warm days she watched her red stone and gray shingle house rise grandly, to tower above any other house on Peachtree Street.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  I felt dizzy when I looked down from the top of the television tower.
2  The snail slides up the tower at last though the swallow mounteth it sooner.
3  The two tower buildings of the World Trade Center have disappeared from the map of New York.
4  A notable feature of the church is its unusual bell tower.
5  The clock on the church tower said nine o'clock.
6  One by one the old buildings in the city have been demolished and replaced with modern tower blocks.
7  Each corner had a guard tower, each of which was exactly ten meters in height.
8  The church tower was a prominent feature in the landscape.
9  The tower bells chime every hour.
10  The object of great interest at the Temple was a large marble tower built in memory of Buddha.
11  The size of the office tower belittles the surrounding buildings.
12  Gone are the support suspenders and gaudy steel rings that strangled the tower for much of the last decade.
13  During a severe earthquake, each beam will absorb the shock by crumpling, thereby preventing serious damage to the tower.
14  Living in your ivory tower at Oxford, you can't imagine what it's like to go hungry.
15  Fog would shroud Dracula's castle, hiding the ruined tower beneath sheets of mist.