SKYLINE


Meaning of SKYLINE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

downtown

The downtown Dallas skyline is accented in green and blue and red neon.

Custom homes with spectacular views of the downtown skyline fill the streets that snake through Baldwin Hills.

From inside it provides a perfect view of the Downtown skyline to the north.

■ VERB

dominate

The House of the Republic dominates the skyline of Bucharest not so much through its height but its mass.

Nineteenth-century prints show how it dominated the skyline and the area around.

Before us a spectre of technology dominates the skyline .

Anyone who has used Glasgow Airport can not fail to have noticed the huge domed building dominating Paisley's skyline .

The site chosen for the painting is a view across the bays of the dormant volcano Rangitoto which dominates Auckland's skyline .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But how could we ensure that complexity and mystery were the only qualitative differences between the various skylines?

Custom homes with spectacular views of the downtown skyline fill the streets that snake through Baldwin Hills.

Go through gate then bear right across field heading for stile that can be seen on skyline .

Set amidst green and fertile hills its skyline is stunning and its landscapes inspire a long and dreamy gaze.

The skyline , from any part of this magical plateau, was toothed like the jaw of a shark.

The week he returned, Primo sent a postcard to Angelita with a picture of the Manhattan skyline at dusk.

They had eaten the delicious meal to the sound of the river flowing past while the sun faded behind the skyline .

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.