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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
towering
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a towering cliff (=very high)
▪ the towering cliffs of Gibraltar
a towering rage (=extremely angry)
▪ He was in a towering rage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
towering redwood trees
▪ a towering figure in Supreme Court history
▪ The towering Cliffs of Dover loomed in front of them.
▪ The building seems out of place among the towering redwood trees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Above the Griffon Gate a towering griffon five hundred feet high seemed to leap from the mountain.
▪ Featuring prominently in the centre of this maelstrom was the towering figure of Richard Baxter.
▪ His towering, blank-eyed presence at the head of the table drew the savour from the good food she cooked.
▪ I have no doubt excluded towering figures who ought to have been included, and included some less important.
▪ Its borders encompass vast forests, towering mountains, and many miles of wilderness as well as cities, farmlands, and bountiful rivers.
▪ The beach here is spectacular, curving gently round the bay under a towering, wild headland.
▪ The one they stood at was made of heavy chain-link, stretched between towering concrete posts that were spaced fifteen metres apart.
▪ The selectors, though, clearly consider that they could still have need of the towering mass of Dooley's physical presence.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
towering

Tower \Tow"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. towered; p. pr. & vb. n. towering.] To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.

On the other side an high rock towered still.
--Spenser.

My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.
--Shak.

Wiktionary
towering
  1. Very tall or high, particularly used to denote something that is taller than anything around it. n. The act or condition of being high above others. v

  2. (present participle of tower English)

WordNet
towering

adj. of imposing height; especially standing out above others; "an eminent peak"; "lofty mountains"; "the soaring spires of the cathedral"; "towering iceburgs" [syn: eminent, lofty, soaring]

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Usage examples of "towering".

Accustomed to flat open steppe and towering sky, Aganippe always associated going underground with death and burial.

Coming on deck just after dawn, Alec saw towering grey cliffs off the port bow and a cluster of islands lying close to shore ahead of them.

It looked as if we were walking right against the towering ice wall, but when we were within a yard or two of it a narrow cleft, only eighteen inches wide, and wonderfully masked by an ice column, showed to the left, and into this we squeezed ourselves, the entrance by which we had come appearing to close up instantly we had gone a pace or two, so perfectly did the ice walls match each other.

Should a lone air raider fly over Manhattan and drop a single demolition bomb in the blackened hollow where the Argyle Museum was flanked by towering skyscrapers, there would be utter devastation among the priceless antiquities that old Henry had accumulated.

And, last of those I knew well, Tamor the Armiger, Towering Tamor, poised upon the balls of his feet as though about to take flight, Grandfather Tamor, strong and dependable, quick in judgment, instant in action.

Two attempts were ineffectually made to gain soundings, and the extreme density of the fog precluded us from any other means of ascertaining the direction in which we were driving until half past twelve, when we had the alarming view of a barren rugged shore within a few yards, towering over the mast heads.

Lofty as the army was, that pale and sinister beacon rose above it, towering monstrous over all peaks and concernments of earth, and tasting the atomless aether where the cryptical moon and the mad planets reel.

Yet I wonder if even then, pressure was being brought to bear upon meAt any rate, I wandered along, gazing up at the towering black mass until it seemed to have a sort of mesmeric effect upon me.

Then it is on, on to spy on something with a long neck and a comic knobby head, and then to watch a pair of angry ceratopsians butting heads in slow motion, and then to applaud the elegant migration of a herd of towering duckbills across the horizon.

Except for the coquelicot ribbons and that towering headdress, she was again his own dear Deb, and he spent a blissful half-hour, walking with her down the many paths of the gardens, and telling her how much he loved her.

Lucas stood next to Amaryllis in the deep shadows of the towering university library and studied the darkened en- trance of the building that housed the Department of Focus Studies.

But I had to bite my lips so as not to burst out laughing when Frederick the Great got in a towering rage at a chamber utensil which stood beside one of the beds, and which did not appear to be in a very cleanly condition.

Zoyd described his inner feelings to Frenesi, having located her finally at the gigantic Dark Ocean Hotel, a towering dihedral wailful of 2,048 rooms with identical lanais cantilevered into blue space, all facing the Pacific.

From the high glass doorway, communicating with the drawing-rooms, at the far end, among towering ranks of rare and gorgeous flowers, over the encaustic tiles, and through this atmosphere of perfume, did Captain Stanley Lake, in his shooting coat, glide, smiling, toward his beautiful young wife.

She walked slowly forward, wandering through the towering stacks with only her esp to guide her.