Sentence examples for tower off from inspiring English sources

This plan also has a very tall slender tower off to the side, and incorporates a large train station.

Workers took down the clock mechanism and clock face, leaving a gaping hole, and then proceeded to lift the clock tower off in one piece.

According to local legend, the devil tried to steal the tower off the church but didn't get far.

By now, the corkscrewing of surf and tide had ripped the radar tower off the console, and Jabb began to drift south, toward calmer water.

Rich Wilson of Rockport, Mass., and Rich du Moulin of Larchmont, N.Y., made the 15,000-mile passage to the Ambrose Light Tower off Sandy Hook in 72 days 21 hours 11 minutes 38 seconds.

An oil tanker slammed into a light tower off Staten Island, hobbling a navigation aid that helps watch over the main shipping lanes to New York Harbor, the Coast Guard said yesterday.

The Eiffel tower turned off its lights.

In 1964 a woman leapt from the Eiffel Tower, bounced off the roof of a parked car and survived.

The Black, Starr building has been brought low by age, the topmost tower shorn off, the brick and brownstone painted, the balconies removed.

The top 30 or 40 floors of the World Trade Center's south tower broke off, pivoted and then plummeted eastward onto a neighboring office building.

At a larger rig not too far away, next to a field of potatoes, a 50-foot-tall tower flared off the gas from the crude being extracted from land that used to be a rose field.