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high-rise - use in sentences
Converse of object
- destroy: Can you imagine if bombs began to fall on Washington, D.C. , and to destroy the high-rises of money markets of New York?
Adjective modifier
- modern: This can result in hybrid buildings where traditional facades of arches and domes are grafted onto modern high-rises.
Modifies a noun
- flat: For much of the area the council chose to build high-rise flats, then much in vogue.
- block: Then, of course, none of these high-rise office blocks existed, only the 19th century city.
- building: The first true high-rise building in the history of architecture.
- tower: Social housing and a number of high-rise towers can be found to the east of the town.
- apartment: There are no dodgy high-rise tourist apartments, however, just well thought out villa-style hotels, amid lush, tropical flora.
- estate: Bad luck for the GPs working in the high-rise estates at the edge of cities.
Noun used with modifier
- apartment: Leisure options Here you'll find a lively cluster of resturants, bars, hotels, apartment high-rises and leisure facilities.
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