Sentence examples for they were towering from inspiring English sources
They were towering figures in 20th Century Chile: Salvador Allende and Pablo Neruda, the president and the poet, two men united in life by their left-wing politics, and divided in death by a matter of days.
They soon discover that they are towering geniuses compared with the knuckle-draggers who inhabit the America of 2505.
They're towering creatures made of boulders and clearly intended as a crowd-pleaser amid the darkness that envelops the movie.
"There was the chance to let the towers be what they were: towers," she writes.
They were towers and at the top they had a flame that welcomed visitors.
Sometimes they are towers.
There is also plenty of money and talent in the other B.C.S. conferences, but over the past five years, they have been towered over.
He was towering over me".
Senior officials in Bishkek defended the government's performance, saying that they were facing towering obstacles in trying to steer the country, including a depressed economy and meddling by Mr. Bakiyev, who is in exile in Belarus.
On a hillside, visible throughout the city, is a blunt reminder to its residents of whose country they are in: towering white letters reading "Kazakhstan".
