How to Use skyscraper in a Sentence

skyscraper

noun
  • But taller skyscrapers are on the way.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • But skyscrapers are not just about floor space.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 1 Jan. 2026
  • This isn’t about skyscrapers on the beach.
    — Harry Bubbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Not a good place for truth, those skyscrapers?
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
  • So are the streets, the skyscrapers, the restaurants.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 May 2026
  • Much like the skyscrapers of the day, the idea that taller was better took off.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 18 May 2026
  • This isn’t just any other skyscraper.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The dock is 900 feet long, as long as a skyscraper is tall.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The new skyscraper stands at 1,017 feet tall.
    — Bridget Knowles may 13, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 May 2026
  • There’s also a little bit of a white lie in glass skyscrapers.
    — Kate Wagner, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Fuhr advanced two bases on the play and scored on Brown’s skyscraper.
    — Craig Clary, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2023
  • There were giants in the skyscraper last night as guests gathered.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 29 May 2026
  • Where was skyscraper mass shooting?
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • New York’s taste in skyscrapers is changing.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 1 Jan. 2026
  • When the foundation is too weak, the skyscraper can’t hold its shape.
    — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The skyscraper is styled with gold lettering and a red, white and blue spire.
    — Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
  • That’s enough on the high end to fit a decent-sized skyscraper lying on its side.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 1 May 2021
  • The skyscraper was once a symbol of control.
    — Charles Morey, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Some who seek to push the bounds of what’s possible try to build the tallest skyscraper.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • From skyscrapers to ballrooms, Trump thinks big.
    — Susan Page, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
  • People make skyscrapers and highways out of it.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Some skyscrapers are quite uniform and rather boring.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Don’t let its size fool you though as service standards here reach as high as this skyscraper.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2026
  • The theaters, the parks, the cathedrals, the skyscrapers.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The third base is on a skyscraper building in the commercial area.
    — Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 15 Jan. 2023
  • An asteroid the size of a skyscraper is about to make a close pass to Earth.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
  • At the top of a skyscraper with his name on it, Reginald surveys the city.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2022
  • The neighborhood sprawls for many blocks, a world apart from the skyscrapers of downtown.
    — John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Dine and drink in the view from inside Michigan's tallest skyscraper.
    — Dana Afana, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Some have risked their lives by taking snaps of themselves hanging from a cliff or from the side of a skyscraper.
    — cleveland, 17 Dec. 2021

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