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• The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.From the entry dwarf
• The city skyline looked beautiful under the gleaming lights.From the entry gleaming
• I glanced now into the distance, towards the mini skyline of crypts and monuments alongside Frogmore.2023, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Spare, Penguin Random House, →ISBN. From the entry Frogmore
• After admiring Milano’s skyline, he was hungry and tired from his flights.2020, Jack Erickson, chapter 16, in The Lonely Assassin (Milan Thriller Series; 4), RedBrick Press, →ISBN. From the entry Milano
• It is a very large presence on the skyline for all to endure.2019 February 5, Oliver Wainwright, “Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of New York's super-rich”, in…. From the entry apartment
• Several klicks closer, the ruins of the City of Poets rose jaggedly against the skyline.1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, 1st edition, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165. From the entry klick
• A single tiny treelet broke the plain just at the skyline of the rise.1913, Stewart Edward White, The Land of Footprints. From the entry treelet
• Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense.2019 June 1, Oliver Wainwright, “Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich”, in Katharine…. From the entry etiolated
• Terry drove a piton into a boulder above the cave, hooked on a carabiner, and secured the skyline.2005, Ken Lamberton, Beyond Desert Walls: Essays from Prison, University of Arizona Press, page 34. From the entry diaper harness
• The low rust skyline of a time-eaten iron town.2004, China Miéville, Iron Council. From the entry time-eaten
• A promise of achievement always withdrawn; an assurance of dignity and ease for ever vanishing over the skyline.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 154. From the entry nihilism
• It was big hats, prints galore, tight outfits and plenty of bling under the impressive Shanghai skyline – just the tongue-in-chic Moschino is famous for.2013 June 14, Jing Zhang, “Moschino lights up Shanghai in first China show”, in South China Morning Post. From the entry tongue-in-chic
• About three hours in, the land leveled off and the horizon gave way to a jumbled skyline, broken by the Fen River.2008 August 10, Aric Chen, “Bridging Generations on China’s High Plateau”, in The New York Times (Travel section), New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry Fen River
• Before us, framing the skyscrapers of Manhattan, was a golden skyline filled with vibrant blues and pinks and softer hues of violet, rose and lavender.1999, The Ladies' Home Journal. From the entry sky-blue pink
• The skyline isn't interlocked with the mainline and haulback, and the mainline and haulback can't both wind the same direction at the same time.1978 April, Logging Systems Guide, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Alaska Region, Division of Timber Management, pages…. From the entry haulback
• In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island’s steroidal skyline.2019 October 30, James Pomfret, Jessie Pang, “THE WINDOWS OF WONG TAI SIN”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2019. From the entry Wong Tai Sin
• Ming Wu, design principal at architect Perkins Eastman, says, “In New York real estate terms, the appearance of needle towers on the skyline is a very recent phenomenon.2016 March 14, Mark Cooper, “Svelte Density: Needle Towers Puncture the Sky”, in Urban Land Magazine. From the entry needle tower
• From the foursquare royal tower on the city's eastern edge to the Dominican monastery of the Blackfriars in the west, its skyline was a forest of spires and belltowers.2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 41. From the entry foursquare
• Above this grey skyline slowly lifting clouds of dirty smoke rose into the morning air as the salvoes of Japanese shells exploded with a delayed crump.2000, Richard Woodman, The Darkening Sea. From the entry crump
• The house itself, which was built before the arrival of the von Ernsts, looked, in an uncertain nightmarey way, like the blurred skyline of a cathedral town.1917, Grace Hodgson Flandrau, Cousin Julia, D. Appleton and Company, published 1917, page 70. From the entry nightmarey
• It would be impossible ever to forget the first sight of the groups of slender towers that form the skyline of New York City, chanting hosannas to an autumn sky.1962 February, Osbert Sitwell, “New York in the Twenties”, in The Atlantic. From the entry hosanna

Meaning of skyline

1. noun The line that seems to be the boundary of the sky and the ground; the horizon.
2. noun The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.
3. noun A path of movement, especially military movement, producing a silhouette above terrain features visible from the location of likely observers.

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How do you use skyline in a sentence?

Skyline is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.”

What is a short sentence with skyline?

“The city skyline looked beautiful under the gleaming lights.”

What does skyline mean?

Skyline means the line that seems to be the boundary of the sky and the ground; the horizon.