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How to use spire in a sentence

26 example sentences · noun, verb

Spire means the stalk or stem of a plant. Example: “The spire of the church rose high above the town.”

Examples of spire by meaning

nounA young shoot of a plant; a spear.

  • Clara had pulled a button from a hollyhock spire, and was breaking it to get the seeds.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 12”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

nounA sharp or tapering point.

  • A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC
  • This park’s strange and beautiful rock formations were formed by the Yellowstone River and various streams that have cut through the rock over millions of years, carving out hoodoos, spires and caprocks.2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, in CNN

nounA tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or...

  • The spire of the church rose high above the town.

More sentences with spire

  • Hedge wizards, perhaps, but never someone as knowledgeable and powerful as a spire wizard.2020, Russell Archey, The Seven Spires. From the entry hedge wizard
  • There are domes, spires, bell towers and chimneys of various heights and shapes, but no shot tower.2015, David Attwell, J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face to Face with Time, →ISBN. From the entry shot tower
  • Subulitaceans have spindle- or awl- shaped shells, commonly slender and pointed at the apex of the spire.1982, Ida Thompson, The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils, page 421. From the entry subulitacean
  • It was long and straight and lean and scaffoldy, like a cross on a spire.1965, {unattributed}, The Prairie Schooner - Volume 25 - Page 90. From the entry scaffoldy
  • The Liehyu church is a lovely brick building with a white spire.1954 July, John C. Caldwell, “The Lost Christians of the China Coast”, in Christian Herald, volume 77, number 7, Christian Herald…. From the entry Liehyu
  • Towers, spires, and façades of Portland stone were white or pink against the dimming sky.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 85. From the entry façade
  • The shell is moderately large, elongately conical, with an elevated spire and an obtuse apex.1949, Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum [India]: Natural history section. From the entry elongately
  • Dey wants him bad, 'cause it 'spire other slaves to run away if he stays a-loose.1941, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, volume 16, Washington, DC…. From the entry patterroller
  • Agnes Roman Catholic Church with its heraldic spire floating on the night sky, and its ancient bumpy churchyard.2001, Middle Age: A Romance, Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 17). From the entry caulking
  • The spire has stronger rib-striæ than C. bequaerti; last whorl finely and closely malleate, with several weak spiral threads.1919, Henry Augustus Pilsbry, “A Review of the Land Mollusks of the Belgian Congo”, in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History…. From the entry malleate
  • As for the city's buildings, it mostly resembled a town of white spires and cobblestone streets lined with flowerbeds that were upkept by magical means.2014, James Blackthorne, Meditations of Madness: The Lost Empires Exposed. From the entry upkeep
  • St Cuthbert's stands among trees at one corner of the green, and has a 17th-century bellcote decorated with stone balls and a stubby spire.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 174. From the entry stubby
  • All the species we have been sketching make departures more or less distant from the typical spire form, but none goes so far as this.1912, John Muir, The Yosemite. From the entry unaspiring
  • With their uncorked engine exhaust snarling, the B-25s zoomed over the twin spires of the impressive white cathedral and strafed several supply dumps alongside the waterfront.2013, Bruce Gamble, Target: Rabaul, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry uncorked
  • From the foursquare royal tower on the city's eastern edge to the Dominican monastery of the Blackfriars in the west, its skyline was a forest of spires and belltowers.2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 41. From the entry foursquare
  • The morning we stood on Monte de Gozo,and saw the cathedral spires as though floating in the distance, the sun was already making its ascent into the pale sky.2008, Cecilia Samartin, Tarnished Beauty: A Novel, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 301. From the entry wisp
  • Ah, B. australis: so beautiful with its lush foliage, spires of lupinelike flowers and decorative seedpods; so easy to grow in poor, dry soil; so frustrating.2008 January 31, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in New York Times. From the entry lupinelike
  • She heard hoofs and harness, wheels, the leathers bracing the springs, she saw faces through the windows, leaves, sky, a flag on the fly from a spire.1995, John B. Sanford, A Book of American Women (page 22). From the entry aspread
  • Renaissance church spires thrust up over the orange-red rooftops, and still higher, the massive outjuttings of the Alps, surrounding the city, were visible from almost every point.1986, Robert Alter, A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal, page 16. From the entry outjutting
  • The spire of eucosmius is more slender, has 8 ribs instead of 7, and the outer lip is always smooth, while it is strongly lirated in miocosmius.1921, Axel Adolf Olsson, Carlotta Joaquina Maury, The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica: With Notes on Its General Stratigraphic Relations…. From the entry lirated
  • The town spread upwards before them, smoking vaguely in the midday glare, fridging the crest away to the south with spires and factory bulks and chimneys.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Early Married Life of the Morels”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part I…. From the entry fridge
  • The air was confused with the sweet babel of its many spires, some of them booming deep, measured sequences, some tinkling impatiently and outwitting others which had begun before them.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry cleave

Meaning of spire

  1. noun The stalk or stem of a plant.
  2. noun A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
  3. noun Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.

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Questions about spire in a sentence

How do you use spire in a sentence?
Spire is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The spire of the church rose high above the town.”
What is a short sentence with spire?
“The spire of the church rose high above the town.”
What does spire mean?
Spire means the stalk or stem of a plant.

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