high-rise
Example Sentences
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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
Electricity is turned off for hours on end to ration supplies, and more than 1,000 of Kyiv's 12,000 high-rise residential buildings have been without heating for the past month after a heating station was destroyed.
From Barron's • Feb. 26, 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
Oceanwide Plaza was supposed to be a trio of gleaming, high-rise mixed-use towers in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 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
