tower above/over

phrasal verb

towered above/over; towering above/over; towers above/over
1
: to be much taller than (someone or something)
He towers over his sister.
The two skyscrapers tower above the other buildings of the city.
2
: to be much better or more important than (someone or something)
Her intellect towers above/over ours.

Examples of tower above/over in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Trees tower over homes organized in neat blocks on either side of a sleepy main street. Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024 Nurtured by the moist soil, their soaring leaves tower over the 6-foot-tall farmer. Jack Thompson, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2024 Instead of standing in the Uffizi, though, Hintnaus would tower over New York, transforming mere undergarment promotion into pop iconography. Soraya Roberts, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2024 Breakfast is served on the 3rd floor at The Gabriel Miami, while guests and owners from the condos, which tower above the hotel, congregate nightly at the ground floor restaurant G Bar. Essence, 4 Dec. 2023 The attackers descended from the steep mountains that tower over Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan in the early morning hours. Rick Noack, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023 Wild Blue) Trail, a 25-mile multi-day hike that traverses the coastline of the Gulf of Orosei, where white cliffs tower above the wild blue Mediterranean. Graham Averill, Outside Online, 18 Apr. 2023 Sometime by the end of this decade, one of those specks will tower above the rest, visible even miles away. Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023 And when the expectations tower over the performance, life speeds up in the NFL. Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023

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“Tower above/over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tower%20above%2Fover. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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