Example sentences for: low-rise

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

  • It’s composed mainly of suburbs and uninspired strip centers (block-long low-rise shopping malls), but there are a few reasons to drop by.

  • Along the main street, Calle José Martí, low-rise neoclassical buildings in blues, yellows, greens, and orange have a stately but dilapidated quality.

  • In a low-rise building near the cave entrance is a small ethnographic museum, a place to see displays of local island customs and costumes as you wait a couple of minutes for the guided cave tour to begin.

  • Since buildings were kept low-rise in an attempt to make them earthquake proof, Athens began to spread outwards across the olive groves of nearby valleys.

  • 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.


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