"`tower block' is the British term for `high-rise'. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Avenues lined with high-rise apartment buildings. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I live in a high-rise where many residents are older than 80. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL] Reference
In the middle distance, birds wheel above the high-rise skyline. From Wordnik.com. [Panama's High-Profile Proconsul] Reference
The city skyline is a jigsaw of cranes and new high-rise offices. From Wordnik.com. [FAREWELL TO TROUBLES] Reference
Firefighters struggle to reach blazes in high-rise office buildings. From Wordnik.com. [PERISCOPE] Reference
Parents peek out from the high-rise windows as the kids start their game. From Wordnik.com. [Fiddling After Paris Burned] Reference
Now it's a posh social club ringed by glittering high-rise office blocks and banks. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahathir Mystique] Reference
Now luxury shopping malls, cinemas and high-rise apartment buildings fill the area. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth Of A New Taipei] Reference
Those things can be had anywhere, accompanied by cricket song or the view from a high-rise. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL AND CORRECTION: FROM THE PASSION TO THE] Reference
Parliamentary forces quickly occupied part of the mayor's high-rise office building next door. From Wordnik.com. [Hollow Victory] Reference
I listed plastic, superhighways, high-rise architecture, which is an abomination of everything. From Wordnik.com. ['More Craft, Less Smoke'] Reference
Actually, the tent was perfect because it just moved with the earthquake, like a high-rise would. From Wordnik.com. ['Everybody's A Celebrity, Really'] Reference
Islanders cheered when the first high-rise hotel was demolished in the town of Calvia two years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Getaway? Go Away!] Reference
And gleaming high-rise buildings, like the World Trade Center, define the skyline in the capital Colombo. From Wordnik.com. [Sri Lanka Unplugged] Reference
It's not like in Beijing or Shanghai — there they just pull down the old building and build a new high-rise. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Destruction] Reference
Workers at the high-rise Penn Plaza fled their building as building security announced that they should evacuate. From Wordnik.com. ['It Was Like Swimming Through Black Smoke'] Reference
The government workers, in other words, had morphed into landlords and residents of a fancy high-rise development. From Wordnik.com. [Shanghai Manners] Reference
The city favored more high-rise commercial development to rub elbows with the 74-story Water Tower Place next door. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago's New Hope] Reference
Supply is so short that there's even talk of constructing Ireland's first high-rise blocks on the Liffey waterfront. From Wordnik.com. [The Perils Of Prosperity] Reference
According to his teachers and former classmates, Atta believed that high-rise buildings had desecrated his homeland. From Wordnik.com. [The Day That Changed America] Reference
We zipped past areas of extreme poverty and beautiful high-rise buildings, and finally reached the base of the mountain. From Wordnik.com. [Tales From Travelers] Reference
More than 10,000 Kuwaiti refugees are slowly getting cabin fever in a high-rise housing project in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. From Wordnik.com. [Hoping To Build A New Kuwait] Reference
The citizens of New York, who live in the spiritual home of the skyscraper, now fear the office tower and the high-rise. From Wordnik.com. [A Nation's Fear of Flying] Reference
"This is my counterpart's headquarters," the general wryly remarked, as a modern high-rise building in Baghdad took a hit. From Wordnik.com. [Architect Of The Air War] Reference
In South Korea, more than 40 percent of the population live in high-rise apartments that can be easily connected to optical lines. From Wordnik.com. [Coming Soon: The Superfast Internet] Reference
One bright spot: HUD is tearing down dilapidated high-rise housing projects, with 100,000 units to be demolished by the year 2000. From Wordnik.com. [Should We Rehire This Man?] Reference
For all their flaws, high-rise projects housed people at four or more times the density of the town houses that are replacing them. From Wordnik.com. [Toppling Towers] Reference
In a high-rise across the street, workmen are scrambling to finish the new office that Cambridge's five start-ups move into next month. From Wordnik.com. ['It's All About Acceleration'] Reference
The mayor of neighboring Gulfport, for one, has another vision: a vision of the coast as a string of casinos and high-rise condominiums. From Wordnik.com. [OUT OF THE RUBBLE... CONDOS AND SLOTS?] Reference
In the distance, you'll see the Hearst Building designed by Foster + Partners of London, a stunningly muscular glass-and-steel high-rise. From Wordnik.com. [If They Can Build It Here] Reference
Houses and high-rise buildings on both sides of the street began collapsing like cardboard boxes -- tumbling down on the helpless children. From Wordnik.com. [Nothing Between Earth And Sky] Reference
Move inside or next to a high-rise, and the strength of the signal decreases by a factor of 10 -- which is why GPS is often useless in cities. From Wordnik.com. [Is That You In Aisle 6?] Reference
In Bangkok last August, a young American, the manager of the Thailand office of a major U.S. bank, sat in his high-rise office in the city's center. From Wordnik.com. [Hiccup? Or Global Meltdown?] Reference
But Al Qaeda leaders were said to have concluded the plan was unworkable and instead dispatched him on a mission to blow up high-rise apartment buildings. From Wordnik.com. [The Missing Padilla Video] Reference
Only two framed photos adorn the whitewashed walls of his office on the 27th floor of a high-rise building overlooking Havana's seaside Malecon Boulevard. From Wordnik.com. [Fun And Fidel] Reference
Mann then dispatches one of his digital cameras to the roof of another nearby high-rise, capturing the shoot-out from a distant, out-of-the-ordinary perspective. From Wordnik.com. [Small Screen Drama Kings] Reference
Six hundred acres of valuable land in the heart of the city are now slated for massive projects including office buildings, high-rise apartments and shopping malls. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
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