SPIRE in a Sentence

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For SPIRE, below is one of 19 sentences:
And now, while the distant domes and spires of New Orleans rise to our view, there is yet time for an introduction to Miss Ophelia.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPIRE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
spire
 n.  slender stalk or blade in vegetation; tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting; top, or uppermost point, of anything; summit
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  The spire of Bolney Minster, Rough Norton woods, and on an eminence rather to the left, Hogben's Folly, so called because.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
2  Then Eve lets down her sombre tresses brown and spreads her lucent veil o'er hamlet, spire, and mead, etc.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
3  You could see the spire among the trees.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
4  There was no longer a view--no Folly, no spire of Bolney Minster.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
5  The church spire is reckoned remarkably handsome.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  I turned in the direction of the sound, and there, amongst the romantic hills, whose changes and aspect I had ceased to note an hour ago, I saw a hamlet and a spire.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  In crossing a field, I saw the church spire before me: I hastened towards it.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  He appeared as tall as an ordinary spire steeple, and took about ten yards at every stride, as near as I could guess.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
9  The spire of Evian shone under the woods that surrounded it and the range of mountain above mountain by which it was overhung.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
10  The church with the slender spire, that stands on the top of the hill now, was not there then to tell me the time.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
11  The river road led past rocky field slopes, deep glens, woods flamboyant now with September, to Mendota, white walls and a spire among trees beneath a hill, old-world in its placid ease.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
12  They mostly lie like the great knobbed blocks on a Gothic spire, forming solid courses of heavy masonry.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
13  Not even the spire of a distant village.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
14  And now, while the distant domes and spires of New Orleans rise to our view, there is yet time for an introduction to Miss Ophelia.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  Eva joyously pointed out the various spires, domes, and way-marks, by which she recognized her native city.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence:
1  At the extremity is the County Courthouse; on the right is the tall spire of the Presbyterian, and on the left the tower of the Episcopal Church.
2  We could see the spire of the church in the distance.