high-rise

Example Sentences

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Real Estate Investment Trust said this week that it would sell its high-rise at 865 S. Figueroa St. for $92.5 million pending approval from Los Angeles officials.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The November 26 fire at Wang Fuk Court, a high-rise complex in the financial hub's Tai Po district, was the world's deadliest residential building fire since 1980 and Hong Kong's worst since 1948.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

Emblematic of this is Toulouse in the south-west, home of France's aeronautics industry as well as a big student population and a classic French banlieue of high-rise estates.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

The two had a romance in the postcard-perfect city, where high-rise condos climb hillsides as fishing boats bob off the coast—all framed by the Sierra Madre mountains.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

She doesn’t live at home with her parents, but in a bachelorette apartment in one of the new high-rise buildings on Avenue Road, north of St. Clair.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood