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 historic downtown is located on the northwestern edge of the bay while the Costera, home of the high-rise lineup of hotels and a wide stretch of golden beach, lies in the center.

  • Although the guidance to stay in place may seem understandable in cases of conventional high-rise fires, FDNY chiefs in the North Tower lobby determined at once that all building occupants should attempt to evacuate immediately.

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

  • In recent years a gleaming new high-rise zona turista has sprung up to confront the old-world hotels and distinguished quintas (rural estates) of Madeira’s more peaceful past.

  • Vestiges of the village’s former grandeur can still be traced along the front, where grand old buildings jostle uncomfortably with high-rise blocks.


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