Sentence examples for spires are from inspiring English sources

Gothic spires are for the soul, Renaissance domes for the mind, Baroque facades for the senses.

Unlike orchards, asparagus tracts — plots of dirt sparsely pocked with 7- to 10-inch green spires — are not pretty.

Unlike the dreaming spires of Cambridge, King's Lynn's spires are cranes, wind turbines and a power station chimney.

Arrive at the palace in the fresh light of morning and the textures and colours refracting off the assorted gold adornments, tiled mosaics and pointed spires are staggering.

It was not just a thing of sight – the spires are designed for peals of bells, the nave for a choir of up to 1,500.

Minarets are no more essential to Islam than church spires are to Christianity, yet each is unquestionably evocative of their respective faiths.

Its 330-foot spires were completed in 1888.

Church officials said the decision to tear down the spires was not an easy one.

"Church spires were the skyscrapers of the time," Ms. Heilbrun explained.

The cathedral, begun just before the Civil War, was dedicated in 1879, but the spires were not completed until 1888.

32 Bangkok The Grand Palace, with its medley of temples and glittering spires, is Bangkok's glory.