Examples of Tower of Babel in a Sentence
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The song is what Celentano thought American English sounded like and was inspired by the Tower of Babel story from the Bible.
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2026
Rosalía let her hair down from the Tower of Babel.
—Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2025
The Tower of Babel questioned whether totalizing knowledge ends in unity or chaos.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
Art history nerds will want to be sure to stop in for a look at one of Pieter Bruegel’s The Tower of Babel (1568) paintings.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
The Tower of Babel Once, all the peoples of the world came together to build a tower to heaven.
—Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2025
The internet revolutionized communication, making the world more connected and, like the Tower of Babel, more divided than ever before.
—Catherine D Henry, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
The 2-mile out and back takes you through the middle of the park’s signature outcroppings, including Tower of Babel, a distinctive, freestanding fin that is part of the larger group of Courthouse Towers.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 20 Nov. 2024
There’s also a world premiere of The Tower of Babel (May 8), a new community opera commissioned from composer-librettist Carla Lucero that will take place free of charge at the downtown Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels under the baton of Conlon.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2026
Rosalía let her hair down from the Tower of Babel.
—Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2025
The Tower of Babel questioned whether totalizing knowledge ends in unity or chaos.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
Art history nerds will want to be sure to stop in for a look at one of Pieter Bruegel’s The Tower of Babel (1568) paintings.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
The Tower of Babel Once, all the peoples of the world came together to build a tower to heaven.
—Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2025
The internet revolutionized communication, making the world more connected and, like the Tower of Babel, more divided than ever before.
—Catherine D Henry, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
The 2-mile out and back takes you through the middle of the park’s signature outcroppings, including Tower of Babel, a distinctive, freestanding fin that is part of the larger group of Courthouse Towers.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 20 Nov. 2024
There’s also a world premiere of The Tower of Babel (May 8), a new community opera commissioned from composer-librettist Carla Lucero that will take place free of charge at the downtown Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels under the baton of Conlon.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Tower of Babel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Tower%20of%20Babel. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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