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 incongruous high-rise blot on the landscape directly opposite is the massive Hotel Dom Pedro, rather out-of-place in this low-key town, but an indicator of its tourism ambitions.

  • The radio channel they used was tactical 1. Following FDNY high-rise fire protocols, other units did not begin climbing immediately, as the chiefs worked to formulate a plan before sending them up.

  • Fortunately, no other high-rise hotels have been built on Bali—the authorities decreed that in the future no building should be higher than a palm tree.

  • In a yuppie high-rise, a "swinger" (Andy Serkis) puts the moves on them, and is so hilariously shameless that he transcends the cliché.

  • One of the leading commercial and industrial centers of the Caribbean, it is characterized by high-rise office blocks and sprawling suburbs.


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