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How to use the word skyscraper in a Sentence?

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When you’re up on the second level, and you look up into that dome, you lose your breath, it’s like looking down from a skyscraper, but you’re looking into the abyss. It’s really cool.

Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Demolish a skyscraper, but never destroy trust. The latter is harder to build.

Chuzy

added by Chuzylyricist
2 years ago

The building is significant architecturally for its intact Renaissance Revival facade that stretches around a corner site and for its steel skeleton-frame construction, features that exemplify the stylistic character and technological advances in skyscraper architecture at the time it was built.

Landmarks Preservation Commission

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

That’s manifestly inadequate to sanitize a ship that’s the size of a skyscraper.

Shine Lawyers

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Note the 105-story pyramid skyscraper, the Ryugyong Hotel. Work began in 1987. Still unfinished.

Will Ripley

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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