steeple

The fire started about 02:30 BST in June 2010 and caused 20 people living nearby to be evacuated to a nearby supermarket due to fears the church steeple could collapse.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

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 sun was down beyond the Methodist church now, and the pigeons were flying back and forth around the steeple, and when the band stopped I could hear them cooing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Littlefinger steepled his fingers and gazed into lyrion's mismatched eyes.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

A steepling catch off Klaasen's leading edge was well taken by Mohammad Wasim off Shaheen, who claimed 3-14 overall, and Stubbs pulled Naseem Shah's slower bouncer to deep square-leg.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2022

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