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• n  a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top

• The steeple he had hoped to use was unfinished, and he decided he could prove his case just as easily with a wired kite.
• Much of her damage, aside from the steeple, toppled trees and tangled wires, was caused by storm tides.
• Police handcuffed him, questioned him at the tiny local police station near the church, whose steeple knifes above the rooftops of centuries-old stone houses, and drove him two and .

• spire

News & Articles

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• Photo: High gable work at Trinity Episcopal Church in Fort Wayne
  Shawn Washburn from Top Quality Painting works Wednesday morning on the louvered gables on the steeple at Trinity Episcopal Church in Fort Wayne. Sitting below him was painter John Bullock.
  June 20, 2013 - Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
• Crisis center to celebrate 30th anniversary with dance party
  NEWBURYPORT -- The Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center is hosting a Dance Party Celebration tomorrow at Mission Oak Grill's Steeple Hall from 7 p.m. to midnight. The party is intended to celebrate the center's 30 years of service to the community. This cele
  June 20, 2013 - The Daily News of Newburyport
• Steeple Repair in Norwich
  Mike Cotroneo, a barn restorer who works with project foreman Jan Lewandowski, sets up scaffolding around the lowered steeple of the Norwich Congregational Church in Norwich, Vt., on June 17, 2013. The steeple was removed from the top of the church on Monday, and work to restore rotted framing will take around two months.
  June 18, 2013 - Valley News

Quotes

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• Rick Warren in Dallas Morning News
  You may lose the steeple, but you won't lose the people,Warren said, echoing a line he's used before. "The church has never been a building. Christ didn't die for property."
• Tom Brinkman in Cincinnati.com
  The firefighters did an excellent job, considering the heat, the fire, the humidity and the height of the steeple which is over 100 feet tall,Brinkman said.
• Mike Huckabee in ToTheCenter.com (blog)
  Huckabee answered Russert's question over a statement he issued in the 1990's claiming that he was dedicated to brining the nation back to Jesus Christ, "I don't want people to think I'll change the Capitol dome for a steeple or legislative meetings...