Example sentences for: skyscraper

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

  • The Sun Life skyscraper, built in 1933, is the city’s oldest.

  • Surprises spring up on all sides: new industrial complexes alongside sleepy farming villages, skyscraper towns blooming in the middle of nowhere, Hakka women in their traditional flat straw hats with hanging black curtains, water buffalo, and flashes of azalea everywhere.

  • 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.

  • Before a skyscraper can be built, a feng shui (see page 68) investigation must take place to ensure that the site and the building will promote health, harmony, and prosperity.

  • 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.


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