Spires
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Where dinosaur tracks coexist beside spooky rows of barracks left from a 16th-century monastery, there’s a spectacular view of coastline all the way back to the white spires of Lisbon.
We are on a hill, and from this fire escape I can see all the way to the spires of the National Cathedral.
From Literature
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Miss Genovese keeps her eyes focused there, on the spires, as she starts to speak again.
From Literature
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The domes of mosques jut into the air alongside church spires.
From Barron's
My father glanced out at the jumbled spires of the eewoonucks.
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