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:

  • Middle sister Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle) is the author of arty, titillating short stories and a magnet for studs and weight lifters; she resides in a dim high-rise down the corridor from two unrelated fatties, Kristina (Camryn Manheim) and Allen (Philip Seymour Hoffman).

  • In this spirit, a moratorium on high-rise office buildings was passed by Seattle voters in the early '80s, in the hope that evil corporations would be driven away.

  • evoke images of little, high-rise dollhouses full of paranoid writers who rarely disagree about art and never disagree about politics.

  • Playa de las Américas was born in the 1970s and has quickly developed from a bare shoreline to the high-rise, high-energy, highly packaged resort it is today.

  • 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.


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