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steeple

[stee-puhl] / ˈsti pəl /


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The simple contour of a chapel, its steeple slightly off-center, stands out from the wall about six inches deep.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 25, 2025

A motorized unit arriving to plant a flag on a church steeple and take a photo—then bolting immediately.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 20, 2025

We park with a view of the village church steeple backed by steely limestone peaks of the Pyrenees and lunch at a bar some feet away.

From Salon Nov. 8, 2025

The earthquake brought down the church steeple and part of the roof.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2025

The pines and the distant church steeple sparkled in the winter sun like an old-fashioned Christmas card.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The cultivated landscape extends into the distance, where tiny steeples and other buildings offer signs of city life.

From The Wall Street Journal May 1, 2026

Sanchez, the priest, understands well the theological underpinnings of all church spires and steeples — a pointing toward heaven, a rising up of prayers.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2023

But Bill 21, signed into law last week, is ruffling feathers because its provisions also could keep flagpoles, church steeples, swimming pools and even luaus in the dark.

From Washington Post Nov. 3, 2022

Her first, Winston Churchill, had spoken of the "dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone" rising again after World War One to bedevil British politics.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2022

It was made of sand-colored adobe and had two soaring steeples, a gigantic circular stained-glass window, and, leading up to the two main doors, a pair of sweeping staircases covered with pigeons.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

That, at least, felt like home for the hundreds of thousands of Protestant middle Americans who migrated to L.A. and, in the land of Spanish missions, built themselves white clapboard New England-style steepled churches.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 23, 2023

About 100 people, mostly White, gathered on the grassy lawn of the Grayson County courthouse, the nondescript beige block that in 1936 replaced the steepled stone beauty that had burned.

From Washington Post Jun. 3, 2021

Greene County is carpeted with hundreds of evangelical churches that range from steepled 19th-century edifices to back-roads barns.

From Seattle Times Apr. 30, 2021

Perhaps it is just a single stand of trees, straight-trunked with steepled boughs, prickly needles and oblong cones, seen but unnoticed, hidden in plain sight.

From Salon Feb. 14, 2021

Judge Quinzy leaned back in his chair and steepled his fingers.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

But stats don't take into account Celtic's steepling self belief.

From BBC Dec. 15, 2024

Like the rest of the world, the Philippines is having to pay a lot more for energy imports, but it is the steepling prices of staple foodstuffs that has become most hard to stomach.

From Reuters Feb. 15, 2023

Guardiola sat on an icebox in the technical area, his fingers steepling against his forehead, in horrified awe, as if trying to impose some reason on it all.

From New York Times Apr. 26, 2022

De Beer’s trusty right boot also set up one of South Africa’s two tries as a steepling up-and-under bounced kindly into the grasp of winger Pieter Roussow, who flopped over the line.

From Washington Times Nov. 1, 2019

It was clicking its front legs together, steepling them like hands grown impatient from waiting.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi




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