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high-rise

NOUN
  1. tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments
    `tower block' is the British term for `high-rise'
ADJECTIVE
  1. used of buildings of many stories equipped with elevators; tall
    avenues lined with high-rise apartment buildings

How To Use high-rise In A Sentence

  • A grid of rhomboid forms, like windows in a high-rise, tilts and careens to the upper right of the 12-foot expanse of Lost Highway, as though rushing away.
  • When one entered the city, the metalled roads and high-rise buildings conveyed the feeling of universal city.
  • Adding new homes to an existing neighbourhood is the best rebuttal to any scheme to clear out houses and build a high-rise.
  • Over my shoulder you see some of those famous high-rise condos that you see along south Florida's coast.
  • An image of a taxi-clogged street is set against one of smiling boys in an alleyway; an aerial view of straight avenues, traffic circles, and high-rises is juxtaposed with one of the honeycombed streets of the old town.110 Bloodlust
  • Wood has given way to cement as the main building material, and new forms of architecture include high-rise buildings for offices and residences, and air-conditioned shopping malls.
  • The following day the front page of your Career section featured a photo of a high-rise building superimposed with an image of a leaping man. Times, Sunday Times
  • The driver turned a hard right, barely avoiding a large divot, and suddenly they were on a street filled with high-rises. MINUTES TO BURN
  • For instance, Youngna Park's "Balloons Midtown, Manhattan" is a row of balloons seen against a plate-glass window outside of which some high-rise office and apartment buildings are visible, but the sun is shining so intensely through the window that it bleaches the color from the balloons. Shadows and Light Somewhere in Time
  • He said that only 75 percent of the existing 800 water hydrants located near high-rises and other public facilities were operable.
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