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steeple

[stee-puhl] / ˈsti pəl /


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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

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

From BBC Apr. 27, 2025

“You can see the steeple when you get over that hill there.”

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

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

New Hampshire’s postcard image is of rural towns built around churches with picturesque white steeples.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 16, 2024

At around 10 p.m. on March 12, a projectile splintered the complex’s wooden steeples.

From Seattle Times Dec. 28, 2022

So I flew really good when I got up above the surface, going over the shantytowns that had been built up around the cooling steeples.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

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

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

The float features a hand-painted wooden replica of the steepled church.

From Washington Times Apr. 10, 2020

He had his hands steepled and his head down.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy

Wood removed tailender Naseem Shah with another fierce bouncer, while Adil Rashid took an excellent steepling catch to dismiss the dangerous Fakhar Zaman.

From BBC May 30, 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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