Words similar to skyscraper

Example sentences for: skyscraper

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

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.
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.
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.
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.