“It`s not easy to see all this,” Faten said, referring to gleaming skyscrapers, eight-lane highways and exclusive neighborhoods. One day, these generators could produce power in shady spots between skyscrapers, he says, or even indoors. The resulting dust storms, some taller than skyscrapers, completely buried homes and blew all the way to Washington. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! An empty skyscraper was a big problem in local politics this week. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English. Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. These sample phrases are automatically selected from various online information sources to reflect the current use of the word “skyscraper”. The views expressed in the examples do not represent the views of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us your feedback. When engineers design a skyscraper, they ignore the individual molecules in the steel. Thesaurus: All synonyms and antonyms of skyscrapers.