skyscraper

Converse of object

• gleam: He takes the tube and after a while approaches the gleaming skyscrapers of 'the city ' .
• soar: However, for all its soaring skyscrapers, it is still a haven of tropical vegetation.
• build: I'm gonna build airfields, I'm gonna build skyscrapers a hundred stories high, I'm gonna build bridges a mile long!
• see: The camera then pans upward to an overhead opening in the tunnel, and through it, could be seen several tall skyscrapers.
• have: Next to the wooden hovels of the past you have the modern skyscraper of the Communist regime.
• include: Formats to be used include skyscrapers and super skyscrapers.

Converse of subject

• dwarf: True, the Forbidden City's low-rise façade seems dwarfed by the skyscrapers now vying for space on the Beijing skyline.

Adjective modifier

• towering: Enjoy everything from incredible mountain views to towering skyscrapers.
• futuristic: Futuristic skyscrapers now tower above the ancient Moorish architecture - with pride, if not always with esthetic sense.
• tall: Want to see the view from the top of Mount Snowdon, the City of London's tallest skyscraper or Warwick Castle?
• modern: Without tough steel, the modern skyscraper would never have been born.
• huge: Ever felt uncomfortable in the city district with its huge skyscrapers?
• new: This is the name of a quite new skyscrapers complex.

Modifies a noun

• ad: Skyscraper Ads - 120 pixels wide by 600 pixels high.
• city: Seoul is mainly a skyscraper city now with 23 million inhabitants - about 46 % of the country's population.
• building: The competitors had to produce a picture by lighting up the appropriate windows in a skyscraper building!

Noun used with modifier

• glass: It was empty as dusk descended on the costly glass skyscrapers.
• steel: Fire alone had never before caused a steel skyscraper to collapse.

Possessives

• city: With design in mind, we will end by casting an eye up toward some of the city's great skyscrapers.
• world: It is beautifully proportioned and remains without doubt the world's most elegant skyscraper.