Synonym: steeple. Similar words: aspire, inspire, perspire, conspire, inspired, transpire, spirit, spirits. Meaning: ['spaɪə(r)] 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.
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31 It is a five-aisled hall church, entirely of brick and with a single, very tall western tower and spire.
32 In the walled garden, the foxglove boldly pointing skyward, like a cathedral spire.
33 This replaced the Gothic spire of the old St Nicholas' in the 18C.
34 Halling Church remained a small building with a low spire until 1877 when the whole of the nave was rebuilt.
35 Easky's spire could be seen from the back window from many miles away.
36 The problem was that the spire was just a little too tall and too thin for its own good.
37 After a mile he came out on a road and saw the spire of the Lutheran church of Ellrich Village ahead of him.
38 The church spire tapers off to a point.
39 Spire: Steeply pointed termination to a tower or roof.
40 A spire swam into my ken.
41 The church spire is reckoned remarkably handsome.
42 Having delivered his remarks at the sales event for the Chicago Spire, he noted, as he laid down his brush, "The most beautiful part of this is that the building is already under construction."
43 His daily commute to work involved him taking five lifts to the 160th floor, climbing through a further seven tiers on vertical ladders, then squeezing into the 6ft wide spire and out of a hatch.
44 At the end of the last century, marvelous spire was added, which makes it soar up slenderly into the german skies.
45 The evolution of Evangelicalism and the Humanitarian Movement gave the new spire to the British New Empire policy.
46 When they came to build the southern spire the foundations began to sink.
47 A black iron cock sits on the spire of the town church.
48 The church spire originated in the 12th century as a simple, four-sided pyramidal roof capping a tower.
49 The exterior of the Grand Corniche Hotel will be completely of glass and the tower is set on a rectangular podium. Through the crescent runs a spire that adds to the overall grace of the building.
50 In The Spire,[www.Sentencedict.com] William Golding tells a story of Dean Jocelin s building of a four-hundred-foot spire on a Cathedral which itself lacks sufficient foundations.
51 Rock climbers descend the spire of Tricouni Nail in the Needles of South Dakota Black Hills.
52 A crowning spire was a key feature of the design from the beginning, including a topmast and a ring of spikes.
53 Gaia : Hidden deep within the spire lie the Sisters.
54 Its spire is formed from the entwined tails of three dragons.
55 Looking east from West Broadway, I see a faded advertisement for handkerchiefs on a wall rising above a single-story wooden house with a bulky warehouse and the spire of the Woolworth Building beyond.
56 A short spire crowns the central tower of the church.
57 Police said Mr. Tartaglia wielded a souvenir sculpture of Milan's spire - laden cathedral.
58 The image rippled and twisted into a schematic map of the cruiser. Far up at the top of the conning spire R2 showed a pul sar of brighter blue.
59 A small turret or spire on a roof or buttress.
60 The Rend Blackhand arena event in Upper Blackrock Spire will now properly reset after a wipe.
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