high-rise
Example Sentences
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Unverified social media videos showed plumes of smoke rising over Ryazan -- a city of around 500,000 -- and a high-rise apartment block with several blackened floors.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Four days later, the report said, a drone hit a high-rise building in the area of Vermont Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard while flying at night.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
His new unit is dwarfed by that record-breaking abode, which is located inside a glittering high-rise at 220 Central Park South, and which spans 24,000 square feet across four floors.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026
As he looked out from the friend's high-rise apartment, he spotted smoke rising from reactor four.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
Their mother was having problems with her own mother, Peachy Helen, Liyana and Rafik's other grandmother, who lived by Forest Park in a high-rise apartment.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
