Example sentences for: skyscraper

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

  • At the harbor end stands the bizarre Custom House Tower, a skyscraper that was added to a 19th-century Greek Revival temple base in 1913.

  • Unfortunately, there is nothing to match Bernini’s great square to give you a proper perspective, and the church is dwarfed by the huge Queen Elizabeth Hotel and the Sun Life skyscraper.

  • Forerunner of the current sumptuous building, this vast skyscraper now sits near the center of Brussels unoccupied, its entire outer structure swathed in heavy tarpaulin.

  • Chatterbox is far from the only person with a strong attachment to the skyscraper; in an essay in an earlier millennium issue of the Times Magazine , Herbert Muschamp proclaimed the Seagram Building "my choice as the millennium's most important building."

  • The Soviet Union signaled its domination over Poland with the 1955 “gift” of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, a monstrous skyscraper that would become a hated symbol of foreign influence.


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