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Example sentences for "tier"

Lexicographically close words:
tienne; tiennent; tiennes; tiens; tient; tierce; tierces; tiered; tierras; tiers
  1. Neat houses in the midst of trim gardens, rise tier above tier on the hill-slopes that overlook the prairie lands.

  2. Wherever I went, the bird seemed to follow, for I saw it on every tier of the amphitheatre.

  3. Wherever I went the bird seemed to follow, for I saw it on every tier of the amphitheatre.

  4. The victory of the British troops was especially notable, because they had struck frontally at the main German first line with tier upon tier of trenches which the Germans had strongly fortified and wired for two years past.

  5. The upper tier of masonry, from severe battering, had fallen on the outer wall, and shot and shell served only to solidify and add harder material to the mass.

  6. The hotels are tier upon tier starry with illumination.

  7. Common resident in southern tier of counties; taken also in Greenwood County.

  8. Common resident in entire state except for southern tier of counties, where either rare or absent in summer and locally common in winter.

  9. All are winged, and hold sceptres ending in condors’ heads; but while those in the upper and lower tiers have crowned human heads, those in the central tier have the heads of condors.

  10. An ornamental frieze runs along the base of the lowest tier of figures, consisting of an elaborate pattern of angular lines ending in condors’ heads, with larger human heads surrounded by rays, in the intervals of the pattern.

  11. In an upper tier of the stand a spectator made a cup of his hands.

  12. When the Fire-Men had in this fashion cleared the first tier of caves, they began making arrangements to duplicate the operation on the second tier of caves.

  13. While most of them stood by with bows and arrows, ready to shoot any of the Folk that exposed themselves, several of the Fire-Men heaped the dry grass and wood at the mouths of the lower tier of caves.

  14. I watched a third tier smoked out, and a fourth.

  15. In the study they found lights, a fire, and tier upon tier of books climbing to the ceiling--a marvellous place, undreamed of by any of them.

  16. A heavy storm was mounting up behind the Cathedral, black clouds being piled tier on tier as though some gigantic shopman were shooting out rolls of carpet for the benefit of some celestial purchaser.

  17. It includes a panorama of the town as it rises, tier upon tier, against the background of the sloping hills.

  18. Tier on tier of upper and lower boulevards revealed themselves, all crowded with automotive and pedestrian activity.

  19. As we steamed slowly up to our anchorage the city lay to the left, its houses rising tier after tier up the hillsides, the whole overshadowed by the great "Corcovado," a mountain which lay behind.

  20. Leaves fed on by the oak leaf tier appear to be full of shot holes.

  21. This oak leaf tier has been associated with the decline and mortality of several species of oak in the northeastern United States and southern Appalachians.

  22. All the population was in the square and on the roofs that mount above it, tier by tier, against the wooded hillside: Moulay Idriss had better to do that day than to gape at a few tourists in dust-coats.

  23. Tier on tier soared the carved shields and crests, bizarre but nevertheless stately.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    tierra caliente; tiers etat