Sentence examples for turrets from inspiring English sources
Britain's previous prime minister was uneasy, a sentiment that was felt – it later turned out – all the way up to the highest turrets in the land.
Tucked behind walls, sitting on armchairs in specially built turrets or else popping up from old stone sheds, Malta's marksmen open fire as migrating birds flap desperately for cover.
As we crossed the border along the Pas d'Aspe – barely a crevice in the jagged peaks – I looked up to see, hovering above, the turrets of a chateau that appeared to have been carved into the rock.
The stern turrets and gables of Manchester town hall have presided over the city since 1877 to celebrate King Cotton in all its magnificence.
David Pountney, artistic director of the Bregenz Festival Think of Austrian hotels and the images that spring most readily to mind are the yellow pine interiors of a cheap ski chalet, or the creaking turrets of some gothic castle.
Ahead of Afghanistan's first fully democratic parliamentary elections on September 18th, the gun turrets have become improvised billboards for campaign posters.
With their ornate turrets, spires, gabled windows and forbidding facades, many of them certainly look haunted.
Instead, he stayed, and organised a series of general strikes, including one that shut down most of Zimbabwe's remaining businesses last week.He also tried to organise street protests, but these were greeted by hovering military helicopters and armoured vehicles with machineguns mounted on rotating turrets.
Soldiers set up machinegun-turrets on the steps of the Capitol.
An occasional military truck or a Humvee speeds in the opposite direction, ferrying the injured and dead, passing the wreckage of an artillery piece, a blown-up turret from a Humvee and a great multitude of mangled metal objects.
Yesterday the Scots turned out in droves with a very clear idea of what we wanted: an end to austerity, a progressive politics based on lifting everyone up, and no more money poured down the turret of nuclear submarines.
