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Meanings of towering in English
Synonyms
Examples for "lofty"
Examples for "lofty"
1
The lofty level of oil prices helped drive down other sectors, however.
2
Previous British governments have adopted lofty targets for trade, with mixed success.
3
Three days ago the lofty off-spinner was relaxing peacefully back at home.
4
The military wants a better approach, and they've got some lofty goals.
5
In the background, in a large and lofty cell, is the sanctuary.
1
The eminent doctor said good-bye with a serious but not unhopeful expression.
2
That Aristotle erred in many ways; that he is eminent in Logic.
3
The church is built upon the grave of the eminent saint, Miniato.
4
An eminent citizen, so one heard, was on the point of arrest.
5
His was the most eminent name in the annals of American surgery.
1
Spain's soaring borrowing costs have become a national obsession since the crisis.
2
One of the consequences of the rental-voucher shortage is clear: soaring homelessness.
3
Critics say they contribute to soaring food prices and damage the environment.
4
But taxpayers cannot continue to subsidize the soaring cost of higher education.
5
Yemen is struggling with soaring unemployment and dwindling oil and water reserves.
Usage of towering in English
1
He was very young, but he had a great and towering vision.
2
In all directions it looked the same; straight towering trunks, saplings, undergrowth.
3
The little clearings made scarcely an impression in the towering virgin forests.
4
Throughout the towering Shape was awful movement; its units writhed within it.
5
As they moved forward, the maples gave way slowly to towering fir.
6
At that time Miles arrives at his front, in a towering rage.
7
The Leaving Cert occupies a towering place in the Irish education landscape.
8
Cathy and Alice walked among towering grass, arms around each other-bestfriends.
9
Well might Kenric seek in vain for the towering helm of Roderic.
10
He turned and looked up at the great towering mass of Gibraltar.
11
He turned his burning head, and saw Heyst towering in the doorway.
12
The towering building is buried in bloated banks of savage, biting elements.
13
The visitors were level, though, thanks to a towering Willy Boly header.
14
One, the towering man, had drawn suddenly back; the other was falling.
15
On the towering wall of the house every window was tightly shuttered.
16
It is rampart, towering and impregnable, between the garden and the desert.
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Towering across language varieties
Ireland
Common
Australia
Common
United States of America
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