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  • Rodia's surprisingly small, triangular site contains the footprint of his modest house since burned down and 17 tower-like structures including an outdoor oven and the font where Rodia performed baptisms and weddings, though he had no religious status or affiliation.

    Watts Towers: LA's weird masterpiece 2011

  • An 80-foot-high, tower-like house designed by Mr. Blackwell in Fayetteville has earned the nicknames "trailer on a stick" and "air-conditioned deer stand."

    Top Architects Go Local Nancy Keates 2011

  • Here in the New Sydney badlands, ravines, canyons, and the tower-like formations colorfully known as “hoodoos” were everywhere.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • As the three men watched, the transporter floor and ceiling lit up, and a human materialized, along with a bulky metallic tower-like device covered in metal and crystalline tubing.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • The Hokies also film from a more stable, 50-foot tower-like structure that has passed inspections and isn't susceptible to heavy winds.

    Virginia Tech changes tower policy in light of Notre Dame tragedy Mark Giannotto 2010

  • As the three men watched, the transporter floor and ceiling lit up, and a human materialized, along with a bulky metallic tower-like device covered in metal and crystalline tubing.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • Here in the New Sydney badlands, ravines, canyons, and the tower-like formations colorfully known as “hoodoos” were everywhere.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • Bangs also became all the rage and women would spend hours teasing, hairspraying and using a blow dryer to build tower-like "party bangs." it almost seemed like a competition among women of the time to see whose bags could be the tallest.

    bethany9 Diary Entry bethany9 2004

  • Indeed, our excavations uncovered side walls of two tower-like structures.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 4 2003

  • First, we wish to excavate the eastern and smallest of the two tower-like structures, to gain evidence of their construction and to allow us to verify their defensive character.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - The North-South Colonnaded Street Report 1 2003

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