Illustration: An enormous old cedar rises beside a small neighborhood shrine at the edge of a Japanese mountain town. Its broad trunk dwarfs the shrine's low roof, and its upper branches extend high above every surrounding tree. At the base, a parent and child lean their heads far back to find the top.

そびえる

sobieru

to tower, to rise high

Example sentences

その峰みねは雲くもの上うえにそびえている。
The peak rises above the clouds.
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その山やまは平原へいげんの上高うえたかくそびえている。
The mountain rises above the plain.
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富士山ふじさんは天高てんたかくそびえている。
Mt. Fuji soars heavenward.
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