Of imposing height; especially standing out above others.
Standing above others in quality or position.
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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 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.
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.
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.
6 She brought him up in the practice of the most eminent virtues.
7 The papers spoke of the trip of the eminent Count of Alberca.
8 But there was no clear precedent on the limit of eminent domain.
9 Bronze was the favorite material of some of the most eminent artists.
10 The Schuylkill and the Delaware rivers gave to the site eminent attractions.
11 Popanilla observed the instructions of the eminent physician to the very letter.
12 The heads of the most eminent citizens they fastened to the rostra.
13 The event has sometimes given the lie to the most eminent physicians.
14 Each of the daughters married men eminent in commercial or professional life.
15 But in two ways the exercise of eminent domain is unlike taxation.
16 Erastus Corning, one of the most eminent Democrats in the State, presided.
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