towered

Living in the inner city in L.A., there’s smog, light pollution, sound pollution; we’re towered by these skyscrapers and all these street lights — our access to seeing the stars is blanketed.

Literally and figuratively, he towered over everyone around him.

Nine miles upriver, machinery tore into the foundation of a second dam, Copco No. 1, carving away some of the last fragments of the sloping concrete barrier that once towered above the Klamath River.

“Hey — make some room!” my brother, who towered over most of the crowd, said to no one in particular as soon as he saw my face.

This was a senseless act that should not have happened to this healthy grand tree that towered over the rest with a robust 4-foot-diameter trunk.