Sentence examples for cityscape like from inspiring English sources

White elephants occupying the cityscape, like the Sambil shopping mall close to the Tower of David and seized by the government, now house flood victims.

Nissan's midsize S.U.V. is so common that it blends into the cityscape, like construction scaffolds and pedestrians who chat with themselves.

Anyone who has marveled at the swooping, jagged, iridescent and crystalline buildings that are being strewn across the contemporary cityscape like diamonds and rhinestones might well have wondered about the jeweler.

Dunlap also pointed out that in times of rapid commercial and residential construction, the sacred cityscape, like New York itself, has never seemed more precious.

Yet as biting as Mr. Newman can be in his comic and disgusted modes, his most durable songs are very nearly sympathetic to their narrators: desolate cityscapes like "Baltimore" and "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" and boobytrapped love songs like "Real Emotional Girl" and "Marie".

The oil and gas money has given the ruler and his key collaborator, Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim al Thani, the means to transform the once sleepy capital, Doha, into a Dubai-like cityscape that has become a preferred location for international conferences like the recent COP 18 summit meeting and prestigious sports events like the 2022 World Cup in soccer.

The surrounding cityscape looked like a stage set for a musical.

With this firm on retainer, we risk seeing all of Manhattan below Canal Street morphing into a cenotaph, a cityscape frozen like Pompeii at the hour the Twin Towers collapsed.

All these banks taking over the cityscape feel like a form of municipal neurosis: the buildings and apartments rising above the avenues are now worth so much money that the landscape itself is taking on the very shape and character of money.

In-ground, above-ground or underground, inflatable or portable, behind fenced-in backyards, in alleyways, on high-rise terraces or tucked into billionaire penthouses, they are often invisible to the casual passerby, but not to air travelers who spot them winking in the cityscape below like shards of Navajo turquoise or Chinese jade.

He portrays these gritty, urban scenes with the same reverence and care cityscape painters like Canaletto did the piazzas of Venice, or Caillebotte the streets of Paris.