18 sentences with 'tower'

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• « The stork builds its nest near the bell tower. »

• « A spiral staircase will take you to the top of the tower. »

• « The weather vane on the bell tower turned slowly with the wind. »

• « The bell tower rang with each loud strike that made the ground vibrate. »

• « The young princess gazed at the horizon from the castle tower, longing for freedom. »

• « A metal bell rang in the castle tower, announcing to the town that a ship had arrived. »

• « The young princess was trapped in her tower, waiting for her prince charming to rescue her. »

• « Babel was both a city and a huge tower built by men to reach God. »

• « Two and a half million rivets were used, and the total weight of the tower reached 7,000 tons. »

• « The tower, the bell tower of the cathedral of Pisa, was completed in 1350 and was problematic from the start. »

• « The unbalanced appearance of the tower of Pisa has led to a multitude of unsolicited suggestions for its preservation. »

• « For the Universal Exhibition to be held in 1889, a competition was organised for the construction of a tower that would be a masterpiece of the mechanical industry. »

• « No one knows, but in view of the stress factors acting on the ground and on the tower, some people are convinced that a strong wind could topple the eight-storey structure at any moment. »

• « At 8:42, nine minutes after decompression, Chris Rundle, head of surveillance at Southampton Airport, was notified by the control tower that a jet 111 was diverting to Southampton, apparently with a pressurisation problem. »

• « Although the original contract stipulated that the tower was to be demolished twenty years after its inauguration, it stands there, unscathed by time and criticism, looking down from its imposing 300 metres on the recent history of France. »

• « To the captain's right, on his first flight with him, was 39-year-old first officer Alastair Atchison, concentrating on the instructions beamed to him from the control tower, which was guiding Flight 5390 through the crowded airspace west of London. »

• « For generations, Florence's cathedral had remained unfinished, its main tower having been built too large and too tall for any architect to complete. Literally no one knew how to build a free-standing stone dome at the top of a tower over 350 feet high. »

• « The tower built in 285 BC on the island of Pharos, off Alexandria, was the first lighthouse in living memory and gave its name to later constructions. It is estimated to have been about 130 metres high and a permanently lit fire was kept burning on its summit. »

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