1.   A few bombed-out buildings downtown still stand like incongruous war memorials amid the gleaming towers of the sterile city.

2.   Across the bay, they could see the famed Manhattan skyline, severely reduced by the loss of the gleaming towers.

3.   Against the Manhattan skyline, the gleaming towers looked nearly identical, except for the television tower atop the north tower.

4.   But since the terrorist attacks, some people have become more squeamish about working in their own homegrown gleaming towers.

5.   The LOB is flanked on the north by the century-old capitol building and on the south by gleaming towers of glass, steel and concrete.

6.   Three thin chimneys attached to gleaming towers are like trilling piccolos.

7.   Those gleaming towers lie barely a mile away.

8.   Two gleaming multi-use towers will soon dwarf every other structure in the kingdom.

9.   A blimp and a half dozen helicopters hovered over the staging area amid the gleaming downtown towers.