SKYSCRAPER in a Sentence

Learn SKYSCRAPER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

12 example sentences for SKYSCRAPER, such as:

1. People's attitude towards the skyscrapers varies widely.
2. The optimum size for a skyscraper is between 50 and 60 stories.
3. From the top of the skyscraper the cars below us looked like insects.
4. The country boys gawk at the skyscrapers and neon lights of the big city.
5. Here many of the skyscrapers are abandoned, leaving squatters, crime and urban decay.

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 Meanings and Examples of SKYSCRAPER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
skyscraper
 n.  very tall building with many stories
Classic Sentence:
1  You may not believe it, but there ain't one first-class skyscraper in the whole works.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of skyscrapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence:
1  Beneath the curious mixture is the kind of breathtaking skyscraper shell, balanced in space, that modern technology makes possible.
2  The newest Trump skyscraper is typically gaudy, covered in gilded panels that gleam in the sun.
3  The optimum size for a skyscraper is between 50 and 60 stories.
4  Ponte City, a cylindrical brutalist skyscraper stretching 54 storeys, was built for yuppies who had flocked to the city, often from Europe.
5  From the top of the skyscraper the cars below us looked like insects.
6  From a distance, downtown Johannesburg looks impressive, a collection of skyscrapers and neon lights.
7  The speaker asserts that something exists beneath language -- like bedrock beneath the skyscrapers, a sanity even beneath the dizziness.
8  The country boys gawk at the skyscrapers and neon lights of the big city.
9  Here many of the skyscrapers are abandoned, leaving squatters, crime and urban decay.
10  People's attitude towards the skyscrapers varies widely.