skyscraper

noun

sky·scrap·er ˈskī-ˌskrā-pər

Synonyms of skyscraper next

: a very tall building

Examples of skyscraper in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Video footage showed Musk entering Turkish House, a skyscraper hosting diplomatic and cultural offices, near the United Nations headquarters with a child believed to be his son. —

Selcan Hacaoglu, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023 These truly immense flows traveled more than 60 miles from their origin, carving out gullies as tall as skyscrapers. —

Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023 On a field just below the summit of Crawford Hill, the highest point in Monmouth County, N.J., almost within sight of the skyscrapers of Manhattan, sits a cluster of shacks and sheds. —

Dennis Overbye Hiroko Masuike, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023 Released in 1923, the film stars Harold Lloyd and features one of the most iconic shots in film history as Lloyd desperately hangs on to a giant clock on the side of a skyscraper. —

Joey Morona, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023 As for Flax, he’s moved on to a $12.5 million condo at the Century, one of L.A.’s most prestigious residential skyscrapers. —

James McClain, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2023 This feat will be achieved through a unique urban planning concept: the Line will consist of two long rows of about 1,600-foot skyscrapers that will face each other at roughly 650 feet, enclosing the desert city like a wall. —

Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2023 Three stories above a busy stretch of North Halsted, on a rooftop with views of downtown skyscrapers, crickets chirp and prairie flowers dance in the breeze. —

Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023 Aramark ran the observation deck near the top of the skyscraper. —

John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023 See More

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