high-rise
Example Sentences
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He and four others were taken to a skybridge connecting two high-rise apartment complexes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Opie photographed images in that show from the balcony of her Hollywood high-rise.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
On Thursday, both Landry and Howery will attend the opening of a new US consulate building, a modern high-rise block in the centre of Nuuk, nicknamed "Trump towers" by some locals.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
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
When they built the expressways and had urban renewal, they destroyed a lot of that housing and built these high-rise buildings.
From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones
