skyscraper
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- noun
- /ˈskaɪˌskreɪpər/
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- The Manhattan skyline, every skyscraper a blaze of lights, opens up behind it.
- city skyscrapers
- midtown skyscrapers
- towering skyscraper
Not, not not quite a skyscraper, but a tall Hong Kong building.
- Not, not not quite a skyscraper, but a tall Hong Kong building.
- This is the city which again defies logic by building skyscrapers without foundation.
- They had big TV screens with burning skyscrapers on them.
- You know when you see like floor to ceiling glass skyscrapers?
- Beautiful trigonometry that's right there in the structural stability of skyscrapers.
- And secondly, it's unlike other forms of progress, like your smartphone or a skyscraper.
- As you drive down and you see these skyscrapers being built in all these cities, somebody's funding that.
- I go, let's build sandcastle skyscrapers right now.
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Past all those skyscrapers and palm trees is my neighborhood, just a few miles from South Beach, but a world away.
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A large, well-furnished apartment in an elegant old skyscraper in the fashionable part of town.
Fiction book (1995) -
Or how to build a bridge or a skyscraper or how far apart the stars are?
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Thousands of rooms serving even more thousands of people in a ship that is as long as a skyscraper is high.
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I was working on a skyscraper in Chicago once, and my lunch blew off the 27th floor.
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It would, in short, be possible to build a skyscraper with Roman concrete and Roman building materials.
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Go right up on the roof on one of those skyscrapers.
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In today's global city, abstract space appears in the form of the towering skyscraper located in the financial district.
Academic text (2008) -
The address was downtown in one of the skyscrapers that keep sprouting around the Embarcadero.
Fiction book (1991) -
The skyline was dominated by a stunning skyscraper that stood taller than all the other buildings in the city.
Synonyms
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A tall building with many floors that holds homes or offices
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A tall building with many apartments or offices on different floors
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Etymology
Skyscraper comes from two simple words, sky 'the air above the earth' and scrape 'to rub or scratch'. The image is of a building so tall it seems to 'scrape' the sky, which is why the word means a very tall building in a city.