high-rise building
Example Sentences
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“Being on a high-rise building and rappelling down.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025
At least ten people have died and 25 others injured after a fire broke out in a high-rise building in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital.
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025
Beyond a gate was a hill as tall as a high-rise building — turned into a dump for the Morenci mine in the 1930s.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024
A new high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles will be the city’s largest housing project for homeless people, ABC 7 Los Angeles reports.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024
They had met in an office that was in a high-rise building, so high that Joaquin could see all the way to the ocean.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
