"distant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A weak drizzle smeared the wide panes behind his desk, blurring the crisp lines of the distant skyscrapers.
- At that point Karr abandoned the spiral search pattern and banked inland, closing on a landmark that looked like distant skyscrapers.
- Even the distant skyscrapers, like the one he had walked down from - their tops were lower than where he stood.
- A flight of falsetto harmony, as shimmery as the haze veiling downtown's distant skyscrapers, soars above the thump of fuzz-tone bass and fills the car with romantic yearning.
- Far to the east in Greenwich, a borough's worth of schoolchildren celebrate their unexpected day off by tobogganing down from the Royal Observatory, the distant skyscrapers of Canary Wharf barely visible through the grey murk.
- Skyscrapers at a Distance And on the waterside patio of the Boathouse Cafe, diners soak up the views of distant skyscrapers rising above the Lake and trees.
- "If you turn your back on the tall buildings," said Ms. Singleton, referring to distant skyscrapers, "you would think you're back in time."
- Thus she writes of a sunset, as experienced by a man in an uncurtained apartment: "The red needle of a distant skyscraper was reflected in the sink, and a blue flame fell on the face of my watch.
- An architectural delight is "Caryatid" (1952), the view beyond a closeup of a 19th-century ornamental statue high on a building showing a jumble of distant skyscrapers.
- Thus (17) might refer to, say, a lawful action and a distant skyscraper.
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