Example sentences for: skyscraper

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The event was staged atop a Manhattan skyscraper where peregrine falcons, birds that have rebounded from the brink of extinction owing to federal protection, now nest.

  • 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.

  • 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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