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:

  • Its palm-fringed streets, red-tile pavements, and low-rise Spanish Revival buildings spread up the hillsides from the beautiful beach, oozing sun-tanned health and the scent of money.

  • 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.

  • However, the vast majority of apartments and villas here are low-rise, and perhaps because the road system is not fully developed here, this part of the coast has largely escaped the attentions of mass tourism.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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