Example sentences for: skyline

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

  • The country’s short history is epitomized by a skyline of solid Victorian parliamentary buildings and a bold modern architecture of office blocks and the new National Gallery.

  • Instead of the red-tiled roofs and filigreed chimneys seen elsewhere in the Algarve, the Olhão skyline comprises flat-topped roofs of terraces called açoeitas.

  • The rectangular, circular, and pyramidal shapes of the downtown rooflines are etched magnificently against the skyline.

  • Although it hasn't dominated Seattle's skyline since the '80s, when the economic boom sprouted a host of taller buildings, it remains the city's symbol of progress.

  • Cataractic and tunnel-visioned, those things are always disappointing, and last night, with the brilliant megalithic skyline laid out before you in even greater and crisper grandeur than usual, with planes blinking their bright-lighted way toward JFK and LGA, with private and commercial boats plying the dark, sparkling waters of New York Harbor, you didn't need any kind of visual aid to be impressed with the view.


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