skyline

Example Sentences

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Beyond the city's futuristic skyline are older neighbourhoods where workers sort packages or sell fruit and vegetables in the hope of making a few dollars a day.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Covering not just movies and television but also theater and cabaret, Reed, a Southerner who seemed as much a part of Manhattan as the skyline, lorded over the arts with a homogenizing mainstream peremptoriness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

At a viewpoint overlooking Chiang Mai, the city skyline was almost entirely obscured, with only faint outlines of hills visible through a dense grey haze and a dim orange sun hanging in the sky.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

But I’ll hunt for the moon above the city skyline and imagine the fresh footprints that will be left on its surface when the next mission, Artemis III, goes even further.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

He gazed at the New York skyline as if he owned it—which wasn’t true.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan