Sentence examples for roof tower from inspiring English sources

The roof tower crowning the shrine in a Hindu temple represents Meru.

But Mr. Golden said that according to city engineers, it would take millions to correct the damage, which he said included an unstable roof, tower and floor.

Each Hindu temple is centred on a shrine, symbolizing heaven upon earth, which is crowned by a roof tower representing the cosmic Indian mountain, Meru, conceived as the hub of creation.

Only five of the original nine towers still stand at the summit; although they follow the basic pattern of the Khmer roof tower composed of diminishing imitative stories, the contour of the towers is not rectilinear but curved, so as to suggest that the stories grow one out of another like a sprouting shoot.

Its convertible roof towered over two Chryslers parked behind it.

A large aquarium, which covers the back wall of the dining room, is a magnet for children, usually with a parent in tow; a traditional Korean roof towers above it.

This is the first impression made by Mr. Coben, a tall man (6-foot-4 sans black Gucci loafers) in a taller house (its mansard roof towers some four stories overhead), as he flings open the door to a domestic paradise that his best-known — and semi-self-based — invention, the sports agent-sleuth-New Jerseyan Myron Bolitar, can never hope to inhabit.

In the Strand, instead of George Edmund Street's relatively makeshift Law Courts, we could have had Alfred Waterhouse's much more ambitious and romantic urban concept: a magnificent assembly of pitched roofs, towers and walkways, Turneresque in its drama when viewed across the Thames.

Nearby, the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego's two soaring pitched-roof towers make up the second largest hotel in California, with 1,628 rooms.

Greek-style homes gave way to Gothic Revival in the 1830s, which emphasized pointed arches, steep gable roofs, towers and tracer-lead windows.

The building was constructed of stone, marble and brick, with a steel skeleton frame and modern fireproof interior construction, and was embellished with "French Second Empire Mansard-roofed towers with iron-work cresting as well as Austrian Baroque onion-domes over corners turrets".