Example sentences for: skyscraper

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

  • There are the obvious examples— come adrift, go overboard (about something), get under way , even skyscraper —but there are far more common words and expressions that have a far more subtle, less direct connection with maritime affairs, some of which I shall come to.

  • Rather than waking up and remarking about the four inches of snow we received here overnight, the big story here is about the two office workers who were stuck in an skyscraper elevator that went on a 40-story free fall--only to screech to a stop near the fourth floor when the emergency brake kicked in.

  • If the main railway station is an overwhelming homage to Mussolini and fascist design (1925–1931), the Pirelli skyscraper, opposite, (Italy’s first), is a more graceful symbol of the new era.

  • This city has pioneered two landscape-alterating methods of construction (the balloon frame and the skyscraper), fostered two distinct schools of design, and nurtured talents such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

  • "How about going up in a skyscraper and making some money today?"


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