How to Use Tower of Babel in a Sentence
Tower of Babel
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Rosalía let her hair down from the Tower of Babel.
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Pitchfork,
4 Dec. 2025
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The Tower of Babel questioned whether totalizing knowledge ends in unity or chaos.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 2025
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In the biblical Tower of Babel story, humans are driven by hubris to try to create a tower tall enough to touch the sky, angering God in the process.
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Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
25 May 2026
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The song is what Celentano thought American English sounded like and was inspired by the Tower of Babel story from the Bible.
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
6 Feb. 2026
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Instead, the pope positions the technology as merely one in a long lineage of such technologies, dating from the Tower of Babel, which promise power and glory at the expense of human uniqueness.
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Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2026
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This transgression of the boundary between divinity and humanity begins a recurring theme in the Bible, one that famously appears in the story of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11.
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Samuel L. Boyd,
The Conversation,
20 June 2023
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Narrative account Lot’s story in the Hebrew Bible begins in Genesis 11, just after the Tower of Babel account, where he is described as the son of Haran, Abraham’s brother.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 July 2026
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