Pinnacles In A Sentence

Definition of Pinnacles

• There are no pinnacles on these buttresses, and they appear never to have been finished.
• There are no flying buttresses on the north side, and the pinnacles are much smaller.
• They flattened into a level table-land, and then they shot up into pinnacles and spires.
• It is rather an ornamental building, with stone pinnacles and carved stonework over the doorway.
• Above the white fret of reefs precipices towered in pinnacles two thousand feet high.
• The stonework of the pinnacles and buttresses is much decayed, and constantly requires renewal.
• The front of these pinnacles is ornamented with characteristic Perpendicular panelling.
• Spires lofty; the broach rarely used, parapets and angle pinnacles take the place of it.
• They are finished by two partly Norman turrets, with later pinnacles and spires.
• We now find those white-seeming pinnacles are of delicate pinks, creams, blues, slates and grays.
• The square tower with corner pinnacles is a conspicuous object in the Fulham Road.
• II Rouen lay below him, a violet haze obscuring all but the pinnacles of its churches.
• The mists drifting among these mountains and pinnacles of stone only seemed to make them more stately.
• Below the windows there is an arcade of ten ogee arches on each side of the lantern, with pinnacles between.
• His mind was scaling the highest pinnacles of its alps, where there was only starlight and the untrodden snow.
• Many lesser reports are heard at a distance of a mile or more from the fall of pinnacles into crevasses or from the opening of new crevasses.
• Where a tower is buttressed, it is a natural and logical device to make the pinnacles a continuation of the buttresses.
• The pinnacles and battlements were added in 1660, as the inscription on the north-west pinnacle testifies.
• All men feel this and usually express their feeling by saying that the pinnacles conceal the junction of the spire and tower.
• Step by step one climbs the pinnacles of excellence; life itself is but the stretch for that mountain of holiness.
• The buttresses of the aisles are decorated with gargoyles and crowned with pinnacles of a considerable size with crocketed spires and finials.
• They love the view from mountain tops, where hills peep over hills and pinnacles are clothed in clouds.
• At the base of the roof ran an open balustrade, broken at intervals by the pinnacles which crowned the buttresses.
• Hence, as the pinnacles are not enough without the spire, so neither the spire without the pinnacles.
• For a passer-by to help noting the beautiful western front and the maze of lofty buttresses and pinnacles is impossible.
• He imagined that they were stirred up by a strong tide, and several pinnacles of rock rose from deep water in the neighborhood.
• Here both pinnacles and buttresses, unusually prominent and elaborate, do not seem to be an integral part of the design.
• The outer walls of the clerestory, and the pinnacles of the south side of the nave show vestiges of flying buttresses.
• This was rough country cut by pinnacles of red and yellow rock, backed by the purple ridges of the greater heights.
• Brighter they glowed, till gods of pure flame were born in them, and then he was looking at pinnacles of virgin snow.

• Possibly there may have been pinnacles now lost.
• Crockets and pinnacles much projected.
• The pinnacles are aflame with the morning light.
• Old engravings of the spires show the pinnacles broken.
• He hoisted the Union Jack on the pinnacles of Thought.
• All the pinnacles and canopies over the arches have crockets.
• The arch is pointed and crocketed with pinnacles at the sides.
• These triangular pinnacles are double the height of those at the corners.
• The pinnacles are decorated with slender shafts and richly ornamented gables.
• One of the pinnacles was entirely rebuilt, and the three others repaired.