Example sentences for: high-rise

How can you use “high-rise” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The task of accounting for and coordinating the units was rendered difficult, if not impossible, by internal communications breakdowns resulting from the limited capabilities of radios in the high-rise environment of the WTC and from confusion over which personnel were assigned to which frequency.

  • East of here lies the fledgling resort of Manta Rota, a former fishing village, and the high-rise canyons of Monte Gordo.

  • It is rent control that has preserved the aesthetic as well as the social fabric of the kind of variegated, low-rise neighborhoods Jane Jacobs celebrated in The Death and Life of Great American Cities , which in many other places were knocked down to make way for high-rise development.

  • Tourist interest focuses on the Port Olímpic, the new port, a lively area of restaurants and bars clustered around anchored boats and yachts, the stretch of landscaped beaches called Platjas de Barcelona, and the shopping centered around the deluxe high-rise Hotel Arts, which sits imposingly on the beach.

  • This is one of the few “high-rise” buildings in Hamilton, as most of the town’s structures are less than three stories in height.


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