Sentence examples for tiers upon from inspiring English sources

The lights slowly come up and the whole stage is composed of massive tiers, upon which stand the entire company.

The tier-upon-tier march that JHP had gone through during these years came back to my mind.

When a curtain was drawn to reveal tier upon tier of Missoni factory workers, not a few shed tears.

The star attractions are the Himalayan primroses bearing tier upon tier of tropical-fruit-colored flowers on silvery celadon stems below my arched stone bridge.

THERE it was: an exhilarating, skylit expanse ringed by a cascade of ivy-festooned balconies, stacked tier upon tier for an extravagant 22 stories.

Readings and recitals will be offered, along with drinks and snacks, while the guest rooms looking onto the garden will form tier upon tier of private boxes.

All the theaters were built on the same basic model of tier upon shallow U-shaped tier of seating, rising over a bare wooden-floored orchestra section.

One 19th-century reader described the crowd that gathered to hear a book: "They were clinging and clustering around the windows like bees, standing on chairs, looking through windows and listening, their faces tier upon tier".

Indeed, some worry that there is now tier upon tier of debt, as individuals borrow to invest in funds of funds, which in turn borrow to put money into hedge funds that are themselves placing leveraged bets.

The Rock's slope is more gradual on its western side and is occupied by tier upon tier of houses that stretch for some 300 feet (90 metres) above the old defensive walls.

Botticelli starts exactly as he continues, with a chart of hell as it drills like a tornado down beneath the earth: tier upon tier of theatrical balconies from which tiny figures topple, descending to that everlasting winter - a semi-circle of icy blue, drawn with the precision of a geometry-set protractor.