Sentence examples for highest spire from inspiring English sources

There, perched atop the highest spire of Santa Maria del Fiore, I can see Florence stretching into the mist below me.

If they'd told her to put on her bathing suit and take a swan dive from the highest spire on the Kremlin, she would have done that, too.

Each day she would rise early, bathe and go to the vast temple complex, where on the highest spire Lord Jagannath's red pennants flew to show he was inside.

The town has a number of other significant buildings, including the riverside 12th-century Newark Castle (partially destroyed during the First Civil War), an impressive market square, and the Church of St . Mary Magdalene which has the highest spire (236 feet [77 metres]) in Nottinghamshire.

In preparation for one unprecedented opening, the rooftop walk on the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, with its incredible view of Milan's cathedral, the Duomo, writer Stefano Bartezzaghi wrote, "We are on the highest spire".

The glib sentences pile up like pollution in Bejing, to the point where not even the highest spires of the skyscrapers can be seen with a telescope.

The tallest, St. Olaf Church (Pikk 48), named for the King of Norway, has a 406-foot-high spire that was used by the K.G.B. to transmit radio signals.

Although it trails the Sears Tower in the height of antennas on top of its roof, it exceeds the Sears building in the height of its uppermost occupied floor and has a higher spire than the Petronas Towers.

It is more akin to a Grand Designs thatched house: creatively laid out (a six-metre-high spire roof, freestanding bath and plunge pool), with nice touches (spotlights entwined in branches above our bed, and our pillows arranged like flowers).

One of the newest public places, the Triumph Leader Museum, is under Baghdad's clock tower, a samovar-shaped structure that rises in a high spire from parklands near the Hands of Victory Pavilion, where the giant bronze arms modelled on Saddam's own arms stand.

This is calculated from an estimated rate of emission of 5 cm s-1 from an orifice approximately 5 cm in diameter located on an oxyhydroxide mound at the base of a meter high spire.