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steeple

[stee-puhl] / ˈsti pəl /


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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

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

From BBC Apr. 27, 2025

I looked up, and above me rose the square opening that formed the inside of the steeple, actually more like a high cupola.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

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

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

When I look over strips of green grass lining the river, at church steeples and into the cream-and-copper halls of apartment buildings, I’m strong.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

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

He fiddled with his tie, steepled his hands, grimaced, and glanced down at his phone.

From Washington Post Apr. 16, 2018

I feel a direct line extending from that girl with her knees steepled beneath the hotel blankets to this person writing now in an Aeron chair.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Jamal attacked Carse’s bouncers, producing a steepling top edge that Ollie Pope dropped while back-pedalling from square leg.

From BBC Oct. 11, 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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