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How to use skyscraper in a sentence

30 example sentences · noun

Skyscraper means a very tall building with a large number of floors. Example: “There was an army of construction cranes working on building the skyscraper.”

Examples of skyscraper by meaning

nounA very tall building with a large number of floors.

  • As the curve of Sandy Hook blotted from sight the last, low glimpse of the skyscrapers which point Manhattan, Blake touched Annette's arm.1910, William Henry Irwin, The House of Mystery
  • The solitary attic—if one could thus designate a space of about three square feet—which comprised Hamar's lodging—had the advantage of being situated in the top storey of a skyscraper—at least a skyscraper for that part of the city.1912, Elliott O'Donnell, The Sorcery Club
  • The Wards are open-topped, with skyscrapers rising from the superstructure.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel Station: Wards Codex entry

nounAnything very tall or high.

  • It was no surprise to see Hanley bat a skyscraper out to left.1920, Zane Grey, The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories

More sentences with skyscraper

  • There was an army of construction cranes working on building the skyscraper.From the entry army
  • The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.From the entry dwarf
  • They ate in a frou-frou restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.From the entry frou-frou
  • As soon as we made our way onto the highway, we left the skyscrapers behind us.From the entry leave behind
  • Even in a city synonymous with tall skyscrapers, the tower was exceptional in its altitudinousness.From the entry altitudinousness
  • A very tall building is called a skyscraper.From the entry call
  • For the 19th century, it was the railway station, for the 20th century, it was the skyscraper.2026 January 17, Edwin Heathcote, “Welcome to a post-human world”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd.…. From the entry data centre
  • Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers.2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847. From the entry young
  • The great cities are greening as arcology skyscrapers and telecommuting allow more efficient use of land.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Earth Codex entry. From the entry telecommuting
  • Unlike the crumbling skyscrapers of Feros, Quana's ruins are reasonably intact.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quana. From the entry necropoli
  • This subterranean temple was rather like an inverted skyscraper, an earthscraper, perhaps.2008, Alan Burt Akers, Gangs of Antares: Dray Prescot 45. From the entry earthscraper
  • George was headed for some dangerous antipigeon spikes on top of a skyscraper.2005, Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Margret Rey, Curious George the Movie: A Junior Novel. From the entry antipigeon
  • Today, the elevator cars of skyscrapers themselves have become the most intimidating nonspaces of the American metropolis.1986, Norbert Messler, The art deco skyscraper in New York. From the entry nonspace
  • The Biden administration has also zeroed in on the building, Federation Tower East, the tallest skyscraper in the Russian capital.2021 December 6, Andrew E. Kramer, “Companies Linked to Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry zero in
  • You might even say that there are no skyscrapers.2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 232. From the entry Atlanta
  • A self-described acrophobe who shied away from the precipices of the skyscrapers he was constructing, he loved piloting his own airplanes.2016 February 11, David W. Dunlap, “John Tishman, an Acrophobe Who Took the Manhattan Skyline to New Heights”, in The New York Times…. From the entry acrophobe
  • Do skyscrapers, traffic jams and computer vira?2016, Anja Mølle Lindelof, Ulrik Schmidt, Connie Svabo, “Environmental Performance: Framing Time”, in Matthew Reason, Anja Mølle Lindelof…. From the entry computer vira
  • Renzo Piano's skyscraper, which will be Europe's tallest building, may provide a shot in the arm for London.2011 December 30, Robert Booth, “London's Shard: a 'tower of power and riches' looking down on poverty”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 31 Jan…. From the entry shot in the arm
  • You enter a skyscraper in an American city.1939, Thomas Oxenbridge, “Cavalcade of Architecture: An Interview with John Eberson”, in The Film Daily Cavalcade 1939, New York, NY: The…. From the entry floorer
  • Here was a city of flyover walkways and half-built skyscrapers that ran mile after bleak mile along the dirty waters of the Jie River.2020 May 11, Anna Sherman, “A Poetic Journey Through Western China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11…. From the entry Tianshui
  • 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
  • But in New York it is as if some giant had been playing with huge building blocks and made your skyscrapers.”—Smörrebröd salesman.1949 December 11, Sidney Feldman, “Europe’s New York”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry smörrebröd
  • In the middle distance a tall white skyscraper stood up, a prelude, or a foretouch to a great yellowish black cloud behind it.1916, Theodore Dreiser, A Hoosier Holiday, page 57. From the entry foretouch
  • Construction of the world’s tallest unoccupied skyscraper may resume as early as next week, almost 10 years after work ground to a halt, according to Chinese state media.2025 April 24, Oscar Holland, “Construction of world’s tallest abandoned skyscraper to resume after a decade”, in CNN. From the entry year
  • The neighborhood we lived in wasn’t like the image most people have of Tokyo, all slick and modern like Shinjuku or Shibuya, with skyscrapers made of concrete and glass.2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 139. From the entry Shibuya
  • Its cogenerator at One Bryant Park, a glassy 54-story skyscraper rising at the corner of 42nd Street and the Avenue of the Americas, is scheduled to come online this summer.2009 February 25, Alec Appelbaum, “Towers in Manhattan Gather Heat for Power”, in New York Times. From the entry cogenerator

Meaning of skyscraper

  1. noun A very tall building with a large number of floors.
  2. noun A small sail atop a mast of a ship; a triangular skysail.
  3. noun Anything very tall or high.

Full definition of skyscraper

Questions about skyscraper in a sentence

How do you use skyscraper in a sentence?
Skyscraper is used as a noun. For example: “There was an army of construction cranes working on building the skyscraper.”
What is a short sentence with skyscraper?
“Do skyscrapers, traffic jams and computer vira?”
What does skyscraper mean?
Skyscraper means a very tall building with a large number of floors.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skyscraper (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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