Sentence examples for pointed top from inspiring English sources

Her voice seemed divided in two: a slender, pointed top and a big, rather artificial low that, when invoked, seemed to overwhelm everything above it.

A broad-based pyramid indicates that people in the younger age categories make up a relatively large proportion of the population, and a narrow or pointed top indicates that older people make up a relatively small proportion of the population.

Yet developers have always argued that the pointed top of One Canada Square sets a precedent for going higher in the City: planes have begun their descent by the time they fly over Canary Wharf, so they only clear the tower by 600 feet (183m).

Thanks to basic geometry, the shadow shows a pointed top, no matter the shape of the mountain's summit.

The pyramidion, the pointed top 55 feet of the monument, was originally designed with an 8.9 inches tall inscribed aluminum apex which served as a single lightning rod, installed December 6 , 1884

Why would you want to be the first one there if you have to serve everyone else? You're sneaking a peek at someone with your eyes, not sneaking up the pointed top of a mountain.

Trim the pointed tops of the remaining leaves and cut the artichoke in half.

Some of the simpler dresses, in pretty pale lavender or green, were worn over white bras with pointed tops that stuck out like tissues from a prom dress.

But neither they nor their frequent collaborator, the architect Clarence True, ever built anything so intricate as this pair, which shared a doorway under a common pointed arch, surrounded by a panel decorated with mosaic work and flanked by projecting oriel window bays with pointed tops.

If you believe, as H.P. Lovecraft asserted, that all cemeteries are subterraneously connected, then it scarcely matters which one you visit; so I put one foot before the other, and within a half-hour found myself allured by the bright green moss on the pointed tops of those ancient stone columns of the third Shogun's loyally suicided retainers.

True firs are native to cold climates and do well in areas where there is a lot of snow because their pointed tops and short stiff branches shed snow easily.