tower - use in sentences

Adjective modifier

  • twin: Note bow fronted offices & opposite twin towers of malt house.
  • tall: Next to the church stands a tall bell tower in the Italian style.
  • embattled: It has an embattled western tower, with spire containing five bells.
  • octagonal: It is a gothic-style stone building with octagonal tower and pinnacles, completed in 1843.
  • square: A large, square tower, in ' C ' up to belfry string course level.

Converse of object

  • con: Shot is bang on the wreck, on the edge of the conning tower, opposite side to the picture below.
  • lean: Throughout the ages, the leaning tower has been the cause of considerable alarm to many an inhabitant.
  • fortify: The Westside also has several ruined brochs - fortified circular stone towers dating from around the time of Christ.
  • cool: THE BEST CITY FOR LIVING IN THE WHOLE WORLD THE BRIEF: to redesign the two cooling towers next to Meadowhall.

Converse of subject

  • surmount: The landscape is dominated by Glastonbury's conical hill, the Tor, surmounted by a church tower.
  • flank: The grand front faces the east, and is flanked by battlemented towers carrying small watch turrets.

Modifies a noun

  • crane: In addition piles were driven for a temporary working platform to support a tower crane for Dean & Dyball to build the superstructure.
  • block: There are over 4,000 tower blocks, homes for perhaps 800,000 people.
  • arch: The pipes of a modern organ are situated over the tower arch at the west end.
  • scaffold: Yes/No From a platform Can you do the work from a mobile elevated work platform ( MEWP ) or tower scaffold?

Noun used with modifier

  • ivory: No towering gothic castle either, nor ivory tower, nor writer's garret.
  • clock: There are 334 steps to climb the clock tower; children under 14 are not allowed.
  • bell: Next to the church stands a tall bell tower in the Italian style.
  • pele: The pele tower, built to shelter the family from the border raiders, dates from 1340.
  • scaffold: This offer is for a like for like industrial scaffold tower only.

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