Sentence examples for skyline from inspiring English sources

Shanghai's Pudong boasts a 21st century skyline of bubbles, crowns and globes.

The Cheesegrater, in fact, is the reverse of the Gherkin, which looks good on the skyline but gets dumber as you get closer.

Flames from construction scaffolding around the bell tower, which has been under renovation, rose high above the Moscow skyline as firefighters struggled to protect one of the city's most beloved landmarks.

Her favourite place in the city is Treasure Island, above the Bay Bridge, with the bridge lights and traffic below and the entire San Francisco skyline to the right.

I have never been moved to tears by a skyline, or a building, or a painted arch, but the sudden apparition of a peak from behind a sheet of mist is enough, now, to make me cry.

We sunbathed on the roof terrace with views of the dusty city skyline; practised yoga in the riad's courtyard under a shady palm tree; had an introduction to reiki in the salon; and were scrubbed and pummelled in the hammam.

It feels as if the perspective of an earlier age has been reinstated – with the great dome dominating the skyline as it must have done for centuries.

Instead, the best views are from the Jeddah-Mecca Highway, where the clocktower appears to rear out of the barren landscape in such an outlandish fashion it looks as if it has been drawn on to the skyline.

Belfast's skyline has been transformed as new office buildings, apartments and industries cluster the city's waterfront.

Later taken to a police station, Nesbitt ultimately got out of the situation unharmed, he remembered, because his schoolteacher father and pediatrician uncle were well respected in their Lawndale neighborhood – where, then as now, the red brick towers and warehouse complex now known as the Homan Square police facility marks the skyline.

This massive scheme will comprise the greatest intrusion imaginable on the London skyline.