sky-scraping
Example Sentences
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Though sometimes associated with shoegaze and dream-pop, there’s a sky-scraping boldness and a stirring emotion animating the LP’s fourth track, “Strange.”
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2023
The decor’s stratified scenes of clouds and sky-scraping cityscapes provided a further fashion-forward, futuristic edge.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2022
As Trump looks ahead to his reelection bid, the president enjoys a vise grip on the GOP and its machinery, as well as overwhelming support among Republican voters, with a sky-scraping 90% approval rating.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2019
Schneider later created the sky-scraping Cairo Hotel, whose construction prompted District officials to pass height restrictions.
From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2018
The first time he saw this sky-scraping farmer lad, who did look queer enough on the school benches, he laughed and asked him whether he towered equally high above his fellow pupils in intellect.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various
