steeple

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

I met my hosts at the restaurant’s entrance, made to look like a pueblo plaza complete with a huge water fountain, towering church steeple and a pink exterior better suited for a spoonful of Pepto-Bismol.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

Cuba’s Leyanis Perez Hernandez won the triple jump and Uganda’s Peruth Chemutai won the steeple chase.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024

There’s a sad sort of clanging From the clock in the hall And the bells in the steeple too.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

There's also a pattern that even though these are Christmas cards, forget the snowy steeples and robins, because royal cards rarely seem to have any signs of winter.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024

Once underestimated by her enemies, Martin, a self-appointed watchdog tuned into the plots and players in a small, gossipy community, has found that her message is radiating beyond the fields and steeples of Hood County.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024

Peregrine falcons in the city tend to nest at high points such as bridges and church steeples because they provide a good spot for the birds to spot prey.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024

Behind them rise the steeples of several churches.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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

The 1853 town was built in the same Maine style as the company town’s sawmill founders and workers had grown up with — steepled churches, clapboard homes with bright white trim and picket fences.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

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

As Macron spoke, Trump steepled his fingers, peered around the room and made eye contact with reporters, as if to convey indifference.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2019

The Grand Elder steepled his fingers together and pressed them to his bulbous lips.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

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

I played along, even steepling my fingers to show my sincere concern just as I had seen actual managers do.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2014

Jenny’s chair let out a plaintive squeak as she leaned back, steepling her fingers in front of her, serious now.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon