Sentence examples for towering tripods from inspiring English sources

'They're from someplace else!' gasps Tom Cruise after first setting eyes on the towering Tripods, to which his slacker son replies: 'What, you mean... Europe?' In fact, he means outer space, but in the post-9/11 climate of Spielberg's explosive potboiler, there is really very little difference.

Theater lights, used during client improvisations, peer from towering tripods.

A mission to reclaim Sanghelios from Elite rebels culminates with Locke's team bombarding, then boarding a towering tripod war machine, the Kraken, whose flanks bristle with Banshee hangar bays and turrets.

Encasing themselves in towering metal tripods, they wreak havoc with a laser-like "heat ray" and deadly "black gas".

Towering, inscrutable machines called Tripods stride about like giant Humvees atop metal stilts.

Theakston directed the BBC play Chains and a Crown Court story, followed by eight episodes in the first run (1984) of the sci-fi thriller The Tripods, an adaptation of John Christopher's novels about towering three-legged walking machines piloted by unseen aliens.

Towering bridges and skyscrapers.

A towering presence.

Towering success.

In the paper the lower order statistical moments of the fatigue life of a blade are estimated and compared for a turbine with a tripod tower and a standard mono-tower, respectively.

Keller towered above him.