Sentence examples for a towering heap from inspiring English sources

Motionless at the edge of the ravine, they were miles from the city and the wide flat river that snaked into the glow, where the sun smoldered in a towering heap of dust like a cloud bank.

Jennifer brought pumpkin cookies and cleared a space for them on the credenza amid the towering heaps of edited and revised pages.

Or rather, you set yourself the challenge of making ugliness beautiful, of finding ravishment in a bleak dystopian panorama strewn with toxic waste sites, abandoned factories and towering heaps of rubbish.

On each stand, there were towering heaps of the tiny golden chanterelles, so many that the cathedral's towers seemed to rise from the mounds.

A towering presence.

Another experiences a towering fall.

Brendel is a towering figure.

A towering masterpiece.

Of a drive through the Soviet Union, he wrote that he had found "a Russia that Tolstoy never knew," where "factories seen across the fields and mines with towering slag heaps are giving off steam and smoke," where "hitchhikers, creatures of the motor age, are on the road with bundles and thumbs uplifted," while "strung out mile after mile along the highway is a convoy of new trucks".

One day Meredith and I took a few hours off from food and poked around the Sloss Furnaces, a defunct iron plant left towering above its slag heaps.

The dump is a dystopian sight, a tower of garbage 10 stories tall with an endless stream of trucks arriving to unload heaps of waste.