Sentence examples for towering moon from inspiring English sources

But the shuttle's design had been compromised by politics and economics — a more expensive and safer version would have put the crew far above, as on the towering Moon rockets, rather than surrounded by booster rockets and a giant fuel tank in the clunky arrangement that prevailed — and NASA's managers were drinking their own Kool-Aid.

Moon! Moon!

Images of the moon also showed towering plumes of ice crystals coming off at high speed from the surface.

"Then what," asks the 54-year-old director, towering above me in his Dracula-black coat, face hanging like a moon, "is your specialism?" Miscellany, I reply.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Mandela "a singular figure on the global stage -- a man of quiet dignity and towering achievement, a giant for justice and a down-to-earth human inspiration".

The extraordinary Peace Fountain, erected in 1985, offers a hodgepodge of figures — a moon, Satan's severed head, a bevy of giraffes with one snuggling against St. Michael the Archangel — all gathered into a towering statue.

A towering presence.

Towering bridges and skyscrapers.

Towering rows of everything.

Towering success.

To help light the way, look for the 17 remaining "moon towers," 165-foot lampposts from 1894.