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

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

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025

Shearwaters skim the ramparts; sleeves of vapor enshroud the steeple.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

The building is massive, with off-white bricks and maroon steeples.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

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

Straight-trunked, with steepled boughs, prickly needles, and oblong, scaled cones, white spruce can now be found from Newfoundland all the way to the Alaskan Arctic.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2021

Miig steepled his hands and paused before he asked, “What would you do to save us?”

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

Adil Rashid had earlier dropped a steepling catch when Short was on 27 and England also missed a thin edge behind off Josh Inglis when the wicketkeeper was on two.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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