Example sentences for: skyscrapers

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

  • Characteristic of the Vancouver architect’s finest works, the building is conceived horizontally, only seven stories high but still the dominant focus among the skyscrapers towering above it.

  • Erich Honecker’s regime won international diplomatic recognition for East Berlin as its capital and, with gleaming hotels and skyscrapers, tried to give it a lustre to rival West Berlin.

  • The shops and offices of the downtown skyscrapers are linked by a network of all-weather bridges and subterranean galleries.

  • Soaring Middle East oil prices seemed to do the same thing for Calgary in the 1970s, but the shining downtown skyscrapers that shot up then do not look as if they are about to crumble.

  • Our steel-frame and curtain-wall skyscrapers are major symbols of our age, but there is every reason to surmise they won't be here for long.


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