64 examples of skyscrapers in sentences

The strange rites connected with the "tivo" in the long cave had laid a foundation upon which my imagination piled skyscrapers of horror.

I couldn't see the faces of the girls, but I understood what skyscrapers of hope they had built upon the announcement I had made when Edith had told of her discovery.

Enveloping radiance gilded the sharp lines of skyscrapers and swept away the shadows in the chasms between them.

To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dish-washing, clothes-washing, and window-washing, to road-building and tunnel-making, to foundries and stoke-holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas.

You will destroy their foolish skyscrapers, their banks, their business buildings.

The wide expanse of rolling, slapping water was busy with innumerable harbor craft, crowded ferries, puffing tugs, each wafting its plume of smoke and white steam; but from those waters rose tier after tier of square-set skyscrapers climbing in an irregular hill to the thin peak of the highest tower.

Myra thought of those skyscrapers as the big brothers of the island gazing out over the Atlantic.

Wall Street would roar, the skyscrapers swarm, the schools drone and murmur and sing, the mills grind and rattle, and the six continents and the seven seas would pulse their blood into the city and be flushed by her radiating tides.

Suavities of outline accent the horizons of San Francisco, where the skyscrapers take on fantasy as they pile up on hills and recede into vales.

As you swing 'round you obtain glimpses from different angles of the skyscrapers of San Francisco, with every now and then a stretch of glistening water.

One of the best views of the city, its skyscrapers and the Bay is obtained from the hill.

In the distance he saw a fantastic alien metropolis of beautiful glass skyscrapers; he could just barely make out ships hovering over it and small vehicles driving around in the distance.

He would pause often, between Nineteenth Street and Eighteenth Street, peopling the skyscrapers with ghosts of a former day, when houses and green gardens lined the streets.

It's e'en more wonderfu' the noo; there's skyscrapers they'd not dared dream of, so high they are, when I was first there.

In the shadows of the skyscrapers; with illus.

Man's way from cave to skyscrapers.

In the shadows of the skyscrapers; with illus.

BALDWIN, FAITH. Skyscraper.

Faith Baldwin (A); 26Sep58, R221881. Skyscraper.

Faith Baldwin (A); 13Aug58, R219454. Skyscraper.

Faith Baldwin (A); 19Sep58; R221585. Skyscraper.

Man's way from cave to skyscrapers.

Followed rides on the Subway and Elevated, a viewing of skyscrapers and such innocent and exhilarating delights.

If New York were in danger of falling to an enemy, the splendid length of Fifth Avenue and the majesty of the skyscrapers of lower Broadway and the bay and the rivers would become vivid to you in a way they never had before; or Washington, or San Francisco, or Bostonor your own town.

I was homesick for the flash on the windows of the New York skyscrapers or the gleam on the Hudson of that bright sunlight in a drier air, that is the secret of the American's nervous energy.

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