Sentence examples for tallest things from inspiring English sources

Its towers of granite and limestone, rising 272 feet above the East River, are hardly the tallest things in New York City anymore.

It's hard to imagine, but when the Brooklyn Bridge was completed in 1883, the tallest things around were steeples, and the bridge loomed over all, a colossus visible for miles, the Twin Towers of its day.

Skyscrapers are a foreign concept to the Masai who live in this corner of Kenya, where the tallest things on the vast horizon are the acacia trees and giraffes that feed on them.

(In New York, the tallest thing was Richard Upjohn's Trinity Church, built in 1846).

In May, it reached twelve hundred and seventy-one feet, which made it taller than the Empire State Building, the tallest thing in New York.

He built the Library Tower, the tallest thing here at 73 stories, or 1,017 feet; the Gas Company Tower; and the two-towered Wells Fargo Center.

No one knew what caused lightning, or why it tended to strike the tallest thing around — a problem for Christian meteorology, since it appeared that God had a special propensity for destroying church steeples.

It turns out the tallest thing he ever erected was a seven-story office building 12 years ago in the suburbs.

When the new World Trade Center rises, you'll be able to see it from 45 Park Place, because it'll be by far the tallest thing around.

Here you are the tallest thing around, and the easiest target.

It's never a good idea to be the tallest thing around in an electrical storm, so being on top of the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states is obviously a horrible idea.