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Recent Examples of high-riseTopping off the high-rise will be an upscale rooftop bar and lounge that will be known as the Lurline Cocktail Club, which will showcase 360-degree views of San Diego’s skyline, bay and ocean.—Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2025 The blue lights of emergency vehicles reflected off high-rise buildings and debris blocked city streets.—arkansasonline.com, 4 July 2025 Outside a high-rise apartment block damaged by a drone, residents stood around surveying the scene as the clean-up job began.—Pavel Polityuk, USA Today, 4 July 2025 With the new high-rise apartments on offer, investors—so far, mainly locals and Albanians living overseas—are paying prices that would have been inconceivable just five years ago.—Zoë Dare Hall, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for high-rise
Often, the victim is a family member, as was famously done by Charles Bronson in Death Wish and has continued years later with statuesque presences like Liam Neeson (with Taken easily being the most famous modern example), Gerard Butler and Jason Statham.
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Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
Dorit arrives first and Boz, as statuesque as all the halls of the Louvre, comes in second.
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