How to Use tower above/over in a Sentence

tower above/over

phrasal verb
Definition of tower above/overnext
  • All of these grand mountains tower over the Himalayas, the highest place in the world.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 6 July 2023
  • Nurtured by the moist soil, their soaring leaves tower over the 6-foot-tall farmer.
    — Jack Thompson, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2024
  • These clouds will then spread east of Sutro Tower and tower over most of the city by sunset.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Some are just a few feet tall, while others tower over the landscape.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 4 June 2024
  • Two of the performers tower above the rest, so much that the whole show shifts in their direction.
    — courant.com, 9 July 2021
  • Sometime by the end of this decade, one of those specks will tower above the rest, visible even miles away.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Western larch, which can live for 1,000 years, tower above.
    — Alexis Marie Adams, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The size of the mountains, the size of the industry and the number of resorts, lifts and runs the state has on tap all tower over what Utah has to offer.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
  • In this department, Southwest and Delta still tower above the rest.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
  • And when the expectations tower over the performance, life speeds up in the NFL.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Trees tower over homes organized in neat blocks on either side of a sleepy main street.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Mystik Dan and Catching Freedom appear to tower over the rest.
    — Liam Durbin, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2024
  • These pyrocumulus clouds tower above the ash and smoke from raging wildfires and can be seen for miles.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 July 2021
  • Sweeping green and golden ridgelines tower over lush valleys, which give way to wide, glacial blue rivers.
    — Timothy Puko and Lillian Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • Lift boats have three or four legs, which tower above a boat that’s moving and can be lowered to the bottom to raise the vessel as a temporary offshore platform.
    — NBC News, 19 May 2021
  • In the company of fellow politicians, Sunak doesn’t tower over anyone.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
  • And across the region, oil rigs still tower above the ocean floor — their beams crisscrossing up from the watery depths like mechanical mountains.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2018
  • In its new iteration, the cigarette lighter wouldn’t tower over the city, but rather create a homey cluster of spaces.
    — Jessica Camille Aguirre, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • While the park’s azaleas bloom in early spring and present picturesque scenery, another notable aspect of this park is the longleaf pine trees that tower over live oaks.
    — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Cactuses are an integral part of the Arizona landscape — especially the tall saguaros that tower over swaths of the desert.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2024
  • In the distance stood a hill where the flagpole would tower above the landscape, topped with an observation tower with blinking lights cutting through the dark stillness of night.
    — David Sharp, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
  • Their balconies tower over houseboats, new parks and construction sites.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • The attackers descended from the steep mountains that tower over Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan in the early morning hours.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
  • At 560 feet, the apartment building would tower over the community of mostly two- and three-story homes, raising concerns among some residents who want the city to shut down the project.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Sauropods that tower above treetops and tyrannosaurs that make the Earth tremble beneath their weighty footsteps are two iconic dinosaur images.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2023
  • Palm trees tower over 140 seats inside the new location that opened last November in the Fishtown neighborhood.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In this foggy Central Coast fishing town, two icons tower above everything.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
  • In Micronesia, volcanic remnants still tower above some islands like stern gods.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 26 June 2024
  • The small city, tucked in the mountains of southwestern Oregon, sits inside the Umpqua Valley, where magnificent peaks tower over luscious pine forests and a maze of streams and waterfalls.
    — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The greater flamingos tower over the lesser and, although more abundant globally, are clearly fewer in number.
    — Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022

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