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Recent Examples of spireMedallions showcasing Churchill Downs’ iconic twin spires.—Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2024 Then, pull over for 50-foot-high fossil rock outcroppings and limestone spires on the Kansas prairie at Monument Rocks, which is on private land that’s open to the public south of Oakley, Kansas, right off I-70.—Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 26 Feb. 2025 The teen’s friend fell on top of him, pushing the boy’s leg into a sharp spire of the fence.—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2025 Temperatures swung back up to 52 degrees by noon on Jan. 25, an hour before the spire fell.—John Penney, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spire
The curves and whorls of the 3,000-pound bronze monument evoke billowing sails, crashing waves, and, more abstractly, two hands reaching toward each other.
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Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
25 Mar. 2025
The areas had large pieces of Middle and Late Iron Age pottery, as well as other cooking vessels and a spindle whorl.
When electricity flows through the coils, a magnetic field is generated, and that moves, pushes, pulls, or twists the magnet.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
27 Mar. 2025
The resort’s spa provides specialized hair services for natural curls and coils, as well as expert styling for extensions and even hair braiding—services often unavailable at other luxury properties.
There was no one else on the strand, the surf a sickly yellow foam bubbling between the matted black hanks of seaweed heaped on the beach.
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Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
21 Apr. 2022
In one of its spreads, a burst of light on muddy asphalt abuts a jumble of walls and fences, rain pounding a limousine, and a spatter of paint with a hank of rope.
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Leo Rubinfien,
The New York Review of Books,
11 Feb. 2021
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