steeple

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

This is the moment a church roof and steeple collapsed in New London, Connecticut.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2024

You can see the town’s rendering sails, but also the Catholic church steeple and the rows of 1960s suburbans falling into disrepair.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

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

The chapel, whose unusual design includes three spires, two steeples, a belfry and separate sanctuaries for Catholics and Protestants, has been locked and left to decay since being damaged in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 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

About 180 sites have sustained structural damage requiring at least partial reconstruction, including churches with collapsed steeples or statues missing pieces.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

We played them in the evenings as the sun set over the steeples of Boston, casting broad, brazen rectangles of light across the fraying rugs.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" 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

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

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

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

He steepled his hands on the desk, scanning over us without much interest.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

It was led by former captain Holder, who swung the new ball and often befuddled the England batters by first extracting steepling bounce, then using his slower deliveries.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 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

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