tower above/over something

tower | American Dictionary

tower
noun[ C ]
us/ˈtɑʊ·ər/
a tall, narrow structure that either forms part of a building or stands alone:
a clock tower
A tower is also a tall, usually metal structure used for broadcasting:
a television tower
tower
verb[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]
us/ˈtɑʊ·ər/
to appear very tall or large, or to be much taller than something else:
As we drove on, the Rocky Mountains towered before us.
Although he’s only 14, David towers over his mother.

Examples of tower

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His towering commitment to cancer research, especially breast cancer research, was an inspiration to all who had the privilege of working with him.
The city has a busy waterfront, office towers, streets lined with shops and entertainment and a public transportation system that ties the city together.
The former is a ninth- to tenth-century manuscript of probable continental origin with a drawing on the flyleaf showing an elaborate, towered building.
The towers were constructed over underground car parks.
Scientists will have to quit their ivory towers in order to explain how the patient sorting out of tested information can facilitate agreement.
Even the ivory towers of academia were affected.
The father, to be sure, as a towering image of authority, proved to be a crucial factor in his son's own self-image.
The photosynthetic parameters were measured in exposed sun leaves of 4-7m-high trees with canopy access by means of towers.
Twenty-nine nosocomial outbreaks were attributed to contaminated hot- or cold-water systems, two to cooling towers and five to an unknown source.
The tower's symmetrical skin certainly efficiently encases and thereby reflects the telescope lattice as the spine around which the building is sculpted.
Turrets at the four corners of the pavilion towers are similarly important parts of the ventilation system.
To the left are entry towers with pinnacle exhaust outlets.
Together with the elimination of one of the north smoke and ventilation towers, these sacrifices allowed construction to be started.
The dynamic semantics defines a large-step (or natural) semantics, which defines an evaluation relation from towers of stacks of regions and expressions to values.
The reasons for having wind towers are touched on in a fairly cursory way.
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