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How to use the word high-rise in a Sentence?

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They don’t invest in the country, the extract … they bring their own workers, Chinese laborers, to the country and build these high-rise apartments. So the investing, you don’t see the investment in the country.

Laura Richardson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s completely unacceptable to reach that 1,200 marker, go around LA – high rise apartments go up all the time. Does not take 10 years to build 1,200 units of housing.

Rob Reynolds

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is impossible to get out of the hospital. They shoot hard, we sit in the basement. Cars have not been able to drive to the hospital for two days. High-rise buildings around us are burning. ... The Russians have rushed 400 people from neighboring buildings to our hospital. We can't leave.

Pavlo Kyrylenko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is impossible to get out of the hospital. They shoot hard, we sit in the basement. Cars have not been able to drive to the hospital for two days. High-rise buildings around us are burning... the Russians have rushed 400 people from neighboring buildings to our hospital. We can't leave.

Pavlo Kyrylenko

Found on CNN
2 years ago

On one side, media reports of high rise in Delta and Omnicron cases and on another side, EC allows roadshows, padyatras, rallies and processions till Jan'15. It shows that Corona does not go where election takes place . This is called fooling people by media & government

Jainam Kumar Yadav

added by jainamkryadavupwala589
2 years ago

You can't have 40 people in a factory trying to get out the tiny entrance and drive off to Chipotle to wait in line for 30 minutes. That is a very unsafe thing to do, in a high rise, you can't have folks all try to pile into an elevator.

Diane Swint

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are big advantages to a high-rise building, it saves energy and resources. The land area is not that much but you can raise a lot of pigs.

Xu Jiajing

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

These are the countries where you have these high-rise factories and the added corruption of allowing these factories to be built when they should not be, the risk is greater.

Paul Lister

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When there's a big conference, hotel rooms become fully booked. We're seeing a construction rush of high-rise buildings with plans to build some new hotels, there's a shortage of construction workers, security guards and truck drivers. In some sectors, we're seeing wages rise.

Hiroyasu Naito

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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