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Recent Examples of spired
Its terra-cotta walls and spired boxwoods signal the style instantly, and inside are huge arched wooden doors and bespoke kitchen tiling.
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Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
Across the Rio Grande in Matamoros, church bells would ring and the spired cathedrals would remind the Irish soldiers of the old world.
—Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024
Although the occupying German forces had begun retreating, snipers in and around the city’s historic twin-spired 13th-century Gothic cathedral were still firing at the arriving American and French army troops and the ragtag local resistance fighters.
—Phil Davison, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
It and the campsite are stunningly situated on Dickson Lake, which is bounded by a spired glacier at the far end of the water that lights up pink with the sunrise.
—Cassidy Randall, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
The single-spired, single-story, 25,000-square-foot edifice will be New Mexico’s second temple.
—David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
Two other pioneer-era Utah temples — the iconic six-spired Salt Lake Temple, now shrouded in scaffolding, and the treasured Manti Temple — are undergoing major renovations as well.
—Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Mar. 2022
The single-spired, single-story, 19,000-square-foot temple will be the fifth in Argentina, home to more than 470,000 members.
—David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022
The double-spired, three-story, 81,000-square-foot structure is one of 28 existing or planned temples in Utah (seven of them in Utah County).
—David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
Across the Rio Grande in Matamoros, church bells would ring and the spired cathedrals would remind the Irish soldiers of the old world.
—Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024
Although the occupying German forces had begun retreating, snipers in and around the city’s historic twin-spired 13th-century Gothic cathedral were still firing at the arriving American and French army troops and the ragtag local resistance fighters.
—Phil Davison, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
It and the campsite are stunningly situated on Dickson Lake, which is bounded by a spired glacier at the far end of the water that lights up pink with the sunrise.
—Cassidy Randall, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
The single-spired, single-story, 25,000-square-foot edifice will be New Mexico’s second temple.
—David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
Two other pioneer-era Utah temples — the iconic six-spired Salt Lake Temple, now shrouded in scaffolding, and the treasured Manti Temple — are undergoing major renovations as well.
—Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Mar. 2022
The single-spired, single-story, 19,000-square-foot temple will be the fifth in Argentina, home to more than 470,000 members.
—David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022
The double-spired, three-story, 81,000-square-foot structure is one of 28 existing or planned temples in Utah (seven of them in Utah County).
—David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spired
Adjective
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Joey didn’t stop there, mocking Vaughn’s relationship with Lamar with particularly pointed bars.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
10 June 2025
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His glasses were fogged up, tilted at an angle across the pointed frame of his nose.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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The withdrawal, and the chaos that accompanied it, drew sharp criticism from many Americans.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 June 2025
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Thanks to its unique design, however, the UC San Diego device combines a small form factor with high-frequency (40-megahertz) ultrasound, for much sharper images.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
14 June 2025
Adjective
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Louisiana Attorney General's Office via AP The group of inmates escaped by yanking open a faulty cell door, removing a toilet, crawling through a hole and scaling a barbed wire fence in the early morning hours when a lone guard left to get food.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 June 2025
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Washington, of course, knows all of this and has responded with barbed words.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2025
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“Spired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spired. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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