spire
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Video posted on social media showed the collapsed spire of a church in Manizales.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Jocelin’s determination to build a vast new spire on the cathedral of which he is dean, without adequate foundations, and against all practical advice, begins as a vision and ends in delusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Masked pair climb Empire State spire, hang peace banner.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
First, there is an initital 113m section of sloping steel and glass followed by the eight "bamboo" boxes before reaching the final stage which includes scaling the spire at the very top of the tower.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
As twilight edged from grey to purple there was a noise in the spire, like a fluttering of heavy velvet, and Silas left his resting place in the belfry and clambered headfirst down the spire.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
One side is bordered by spired red sandstone peaks and juniper trees, and there’s a cluster of family homes on the other side.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2021
Where I live, every day, on the frontlines of this digital revolution, there is every reason to feel in spired.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2017
For years, Rabbi White occupied an office on the first floor of Georgetown’s imposing and spired Healy Hall.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2015
Burgos, in Castile-León, is home to a spired Gothic cathedral that is a Unesco World Heritage site.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2013
I wandered within the spired cities and domed pumping stations of Barsoom, and along the verdant banks of the Nilosyrtis and Nepenthes canals.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Fellowship allows universities to nominate four students annually for three-year fellowships that cover spiring computer scientists’ tuition, fees and living expenses while they work with mentors.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
I declare this tower is my symbol; I declare This winding, gyring, spiring treadmill is my ancestral stair…
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2015
The operators deny "con- spiring" and contend there are simply more miners on hand than the coal market now needs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stein and Hardy are now con spiring to persuade women employees to wear pantsuits in the office to fight the onslaught of the midi.
From Time Magazine Archive
He read, then thrust it in his lanthorn flame Till it was ashes; 'Follow' and no more Whisper'd, went up the giddy spiring way, I after, till we reached the topmost door.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
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Built To Last: Architectural Parlance
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