How to Use skyscraper in a Sentence

skyscraper

noun

• An asteroid the size of a skyscraper is about to make a close pass to Earth.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
• Fuhr advanced two bases on the play and scored on Brown’s skyscraper.
  — Craig Clary, Baltimore Sun, 29 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
• Some who seek to push the bounds of what’s possible try to build the tallest skyscraper.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• The third base is on a skyscraper building in the commercial area.
  — Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 15 Jan. 2023
• The brass glared like a reflection off a skyscraper’s skin.
  — Vulture, 22 May 2023
• Erecting the highest skyscraper gave caché to Met Life.
  — Audrey Wachs, Curbed, 9 Aug. 2023
• Aramark ran the observation deck near the top of the skyscraper.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
• In the center of Kyiv, just a skyscraper, like a business center.
  — Steve Knopper, Billboard, 25 Feb. 2022
• At last count, KPF, as the firm is known, had designed more than 250 skyscrapers around the globe, including some of the tallest.
  — Paul Goldberger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023
• The asteroid is more than half a mile wide, or about the height of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2022
• Downtown skyscrapers glittered in the sun and, beyond that, the ocean looked golden.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Tom Cruise has hung off the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai and dangled from the wing of a plane thousands of feet above the earth.
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
• Ahead of the Grammy Awards held at Crypto.com Arena, dozens of floors of the skyscraper were tagged with colorful spray paint.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• The couple and the kids jetted to New York City at one point, as seen in a picture of Rocky looking at skyscrapers.
  — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2024
• Its wide roads and low brick-and-mortar shops are a sharp contrast to the skyscrapers of Manhattan.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 29 June 2024
• Ethan Hunt had just jumped off a helicopter down through a skyscraper.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 15 June 2022
• And shorter buildings — not skyscrapers — account for the most bird deaths.
  — Tracey Tully, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• One of the videos showed a jumper leaping from the corner of a skyscraper that is under construction.
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
• In another shot, the dad of three posed in front of the futuristic skyscrapers while Liam stood in the background.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
• In many of those cities, every square inch of land is precious and skyscrapers suck up power.
  — Joann Muller, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024
• And, in what feels like a full-circle moment, Lewis has designed one of the skyscraper’s model units.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 29 Apr. 2022
• Sherwood’s script got Keaton marooned high up in a skyscraper but couldn’t find a way of getting him down.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• One of those flights came a day after Huizar and Huang reviewed the skyscraper plans with a large group of city officials.
  — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• What will skyscrapers, or smartphones, or schools look like in thirty years?
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 30 July 2024
• One of the best parts of visiting a city is getting out of it and finding pockets of nature among the skyscrapers and city streets.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2024
• Here, skyscrapers are pine trees, subway maps are trails and museums are art exhibits in the woods.
  — James Barrett, ELLE Decor, 5 Apr. 2023
• There were landscapes both natural and fantastic, with skyscrapers draped in what looked like fondant.
  — John Werner, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
• Allied Chemical bought it in 1963 and stripped Ochs’ ornate building into a modernist glass skyscraper.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025