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.

  • The cities’ shanty-town districts are often directly in the shadow of the shining skyscrapers, built by the shanty-town residents themselves.

  • By the time of Deng’s death in 1997, Beijing was firmly reshaping itself as an international capital in the Western mode, complete with expressways, skyscrapers, shopping plazas, luxury hotel chains, rock concerts, and state-of-the-art computer technologies — not to mention rising crime rates, soaring pollution levels, increasing unemployment, and income disparities sharp enough to make Mao turn over in his crypt.

  • The same axis continues into the distant haze to the skyscrapers of La Défense and the Grande Arche.

  • From Victoria Peak, Hong Kong’s highest point, or from skyscrapers and hotels, they are especially exciting at night when the lights are on.


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