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: a tall structure usually having a small spire at the top and surmounting a church tower
broadly
: a whole church tower
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It's been over a year since the town of Fairview approved plans for a 120-foot steeple on a new Latter-day Saints temple.
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Erin Jones, CBS News, 16 June 2026
Schaller pointed to a placard that volunteers had hung beneath the coffee station, which showed cartoon yellow cranes—evocative of a construction boom—suspended over a church steeple and a splash of Kelly green.
—Jessi Jezewska Stevens, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Cranes outnumber church steeples some weeks.
—Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026
These tall steeples create a living architecture unlike anything else in the ocean.
—Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
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Erin Jones, CBS News, 16 June 2026
Schaller pointed to a placard that volunteers had hung beneath the coffee station, which showed cartoon yellow cranes—evocative of a construction boom—suspended over a church steeple and a splash of Kelly green.
—Jessi Jezewska Stevens, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Cranes outnumber church steeples some weeks.
—Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026
These tall steeples create a living architecture unlike anything else in the ocean.
—Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for steeple
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“Steeple.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steeple. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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