Spires

Word SPIRES
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Definitions and meanings of "Spires"

What do we mean by spires?

The stalk or stem of a plant.

A young shoot of a plant; a spear.

Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.

A sharp or tapering point.

A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.

The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.

A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.

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The word "spires" in example sentences

Super Saver was given an easy 1-mile jog beneath the twin spires early Thursday morning. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He had also demonstrated a liking for Churchill Downs, having won a Grade 2 event by five lengths beneath the twin spires last Nov. 28. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pletcher noted that all of his horses breezed well beneath the twin spires when the track was sloppy last Saturday. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was as farre as ye Queen of Scotts pillar, wch is a Large white stone, and ye top hangs over your head Like a Cannopy all great white Stones and in spires or Large jceickles and glistring as the other. ❋ Unknown (1888)

Diligence in particular is tryed in keeping the floor clear and turning the Malt often, that it neither moulds nor Aker-spires, that is, that the ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

But there are other, real terraces to be found by those who search diligently and know how to discriminate, terraces with a background that has grown up with the city, that strikes no foreign note in that harmony of form and colour, of clustering red-tiled roofs surmounted by domes, towers and spires, which is Prague. ❋ Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker (N/A)

But then you hit 'spires' and it all falls apart: it must be talking about the wind. ❋ Adam Roberts (2010)

And how unfortunate that the lighting reflects pink on the, er, "spires". ❋ Jen (2008)

I was going to ask if they had to use anything as a form underneath to hold up the "spires". lol ❋ Jen (2008)

On an extensive plain (which is covered with a green turf, as well as the hills and dales, as far as the eye can possibly range, without tree or bush to be seen) are to be seen rising from the ground, and towards the heavens, domes -- (not "of gold" but) of dirt -- and the thousand spears (not "spires") and scalp-poles, &c, &c., of. the semi-subterraneous village of the hospitable acid gentlemanly Mandans. ❋ Unknown (1841)

"Not only did the word 'spires' appear twice in the same short extract, but the lawns, bless them, were 'manicured'. ❋ Unknown (2008)

All around was the beauty of Yosemite, those waterfalls crashing down the massive walls into the wildflowers, the mists sifting through the granite spires, the river pooling up in the meadows to capture reflections of sunrise and moonlight on the soaring cliffs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So many buildings adorned with spires, arches and domes were built during his reign that the kitschy look came to be known as "Luzhkov Empire." ❋ Gregory L. White (2010)

The Observer decided to take the 235-mile journey from Pendle to Elmbridge, taking in the urban sprawl of Birmingham and the spires of Oxford on the way: a journey through the hopes and fears of a country on the eve of the most feared cuts for a generation. ❋ Jamie Doward (2010)

EsherThere are no dreaming spires on Esher high street in Surrey. ❋ Jamie Doward (2010)

Church spires rise above red tile roofs in the Jalisco town of Mazamitla. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We passed tracks of moose, lynx, caribou, and the star-patterns of the snowshoe hare; we slid past stands of cottonwood, willow and spruce, and sailed towards the famous granite spires known as Boreal Mountain and Frigid Crags, the guardians of the 600-mile-long Brooks Range, the Gates of the Arctic. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

Squinting against the impossibly bright sun, he could see the glass and steel spires of the capital city of the Sultanate of Mohan rising in the distance. ❋ Howard Gordon (2011)

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