high-rise
Example Sentences
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In the country's densely packed cities, courts are wedged between tight alleyways and nestled beneath high-rises, disturbing thousands of people at once.
From Barron's
In 32 pages of PowerPoint slides, replete with images of coastal high-rises alongside charts and cost tables, the plan outlines steps to take Gaza residents from tents to penthouses and from poverty to prosperity.
Over time federal and state authorities bulldozed many poor neighborhoods and replaced them with supposedly more rational units, often high-rises.
There has been growing support for converting some empty high-rise towers into apartments and condos, but that is an expensive and time-consuming process.
From Los Angeles Times
The elections took place a little more than a week after one of the deadliest fires in Hong Kong’s history engulfed seven buildings in a high-rise housing complex, claiming at least 159 lives.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
