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skyline
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Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 1035 Housing Units (2000): 242 Land area (2000): 6.155810 sq. miles (15.943473 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 6.155810 sq. miles (15.943473 sq. km) FIPS code: 73440 Located within: New ...
Wikipedia
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A skyline is the artificial horizon that a city's overall structure creates. Skyline may also refer to:
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE downtown ▪ The downtown Dallas skyline is accented in green and blue and red neon. ▪ Custom homes with spectacular views of the downtown skyline fill the streets that snake through Baldwin Hills. ▪ From inside it ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context earth sciences English) The line at which the earth and sky meet, horizon. 2 The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky. vb. To outline something against the sky.
Usage examples of skyline.
The sun was only a sliver on the horizon, above the Los Angeles skyline off to the east.
To the rumbling thunder of hoofs, the Beja cavalry swept over the skyline ahead.
To his left, the ground was largely flat and covered in long grass with occasional clumps of wideoaks and heartseed breaking the skyline.
Lieutenant Ranal sawed hard on the reins, and the horse reared against the skyline.
He had not objected to the Sawtooth cattle which still watered at Skyline Meadow.
Lone wondered sometimes what the Sawtooth meant to do about the Swede, but so far the Sawtooth seemed inclined to do nothing at all, evidently thinking his war on animal pests more than atoned for his effrontery in taking Skyline as a homestead.
He scanned the jagged skyline, looking for any hint of an approaching storm.
That he said nothing of antiquarian rambles in the glamorous old city with its luring skyline of ancient domes and steeples and its tangles of roads and alleys whose mystic convolutions and sudden vistas alternately beckon and surprise, was taken by his parents as a good index of the degree to which his new interests had engrossed his mind.
Standing in a private room, amid heavy, expensive furnishings of mahogany, Lester Dorrington stared from the window as he surveyed the steplike skyline of Manhattan.
Condos, apartments, and lofts proliferated, all with views of man-made ponds, and names like Clarkson Green, Cedar Mills, Skyline Terrace, Tivoli.
Later in the day, the plexiglass sheets that separated the climbers from the view would begin to cloud over with the accumulated moisture panted out of hundreds of pairs of lungs, but this early in the morning, the skyline of Toronto fell away beside them with vertigo-inducing clarity.
One moment the skyline was empty, then the world was dominated by cavalry and the sky was pierced by the last fine notes which hurled the Cuirassiers into their gallop.
Along the skyline they went, Montero leading, followed by Mariana and the pack animals, then Eileen Mulkerin and Sean.
He would never have seen them if they had been on the trail, but they were on the skyline on the very edge of the gorge, figures moving in silhouette, climbing the rock outcrops and peering down.
Had it not been, he would have reacted to what was happening on the skyline before he remounted his porp and turned her seaward.