Sentence examples for tower yet from inspiring English sources

His limbs worked miraculously as he ascended the tower, yet one could only dread what would happen if he reached the idiot boys at the top, who were growing more agitated and furious with every inch he achieved.

Rapunzel, Ms. Tatar points out, is a plant that is "autogamous" -- it can fertilize itself; it may also represent a fantasy for isolated purity and safety, embodied by Rapunzel's imprisoning tower; yet even there she is impregnated and her prince blinded.

Perhaps Zynga thought those nice folk north of the Border somehow hadn't heard of Tiny Tower yet?

Emerging smart applications and AR/VR interfaces require high-performance compute capability to be local — in your car, in your home or business, in a cell tower — yet still connected to the cloud.

The firm hasn't lined up any clients for the Tulsa Tornado Tower yet, but Fox 23 Tulsa reports that the concept is getting a whirlwind of social media buzz, with investors reaching out directly to the firm.

NEWARK — A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced Sharpe James, Newark's towering yet controversial former mayor, to prison for 27 months at a simmering five-hour hearing in which he rebuked the prosecution for "heartlessly" adhering to a bureaucratic form of justice.

John Cleese's Basil Fawlty desperately tries to be serious when he meets his German guests at Fawlty Towers, yet he cannot stop himself from reverting to the English instinct of black-humoured wordplay: "That's two egg mayonnaise, a prawn Goebbels, a Herman Göring and four Colditz salads".

By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, August 30 , 1930 P. 19After a visit to the Chrysler and the Daily News Building and upon reading the still more magnificent towers, yet to come, written as in a dream) On October 17 The-New Yorker will move into its new one-hundred-story building at 445 Riverside Drive.

Yes, losses are towering, yet Tier I capital the core measure of a bank's financial strength, chiefly shareholders' equity (including that from preferred shares)–is not threatened, as was true 17 years ago.

We eased ourselves into the solar-heated yet wonderfully chilly water and then settled back into our horizontal state, eyes closed, with towering yet graceful palms fanning our travel dreams.

Gaiman, who is British, portrays the old-world gods as towering yet ultimately tragic heroes, dying out because their believers from whom they've demanded sacrifices and superstitious rituals for centuries no longer remember or care about them.