steeple
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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
Grace Lutheran is different from any place of worship I’ve ever seen: a simple white building with a steeple, Gothic arched windows, oak pews, and a spare altar.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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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
Her first, Winston Churchill, had spoken of the "dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone" rising again after World War One to bedevil British politics.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2022
To the east, the vineyard looks out over steeples rising from clusters of buildings in the valley.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
He turns to Edna and steeples his fingers.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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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
He fiddled with his tie, steepled his hands, grimaced, and glanced down at his phone.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2018
He had his hands steepled and his head down.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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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
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