noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
build
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People building skyscrapers have the same problem.
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The complexity of the curtain walls on Worldwide Plaza was, of course, nothing new in the world of building skyscrapers .
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Worldwide Plaza turned out to be quite a stiff building as skyscrapers go.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His office looked out on the other skyscrapers of downtown Dallas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Elsewhere in Beirut, gleaming steel and glass skyscrapers are rising.
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For a moment she wished she were on the top floor of a very, very high skyscraper .
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Human creatures under the warm shadows of skyscrapers feeling the heavy pleasure of their nature, and yielding.
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It's similar to staggering shell-shocked in alien territory occupied solely by foreboding empty skyscrapers.
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It could be the inside of a submarine or the backside of skyscraper .
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The moon and the star are personified, the skyscraper is a human skeleton with bones and ribs.
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The objective of the competition is to give Glasgow a central skyscraper which would reflect the city's new vigour and status.
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To this day the building has a remarkable power in a modern city of concrete skyscrapers and oppressive traffic.