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Recent Examples of skylineIf the home’s storied past isn’t enough, the property also has 862 feet of waterfront access, a helipad and views of the Miami skyline across Biscayne Bay.—Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026 The 13,000 square-foot home itself includes floor-to-ceiling windows with a view of Biscayne Bay and the Miami skyline, five bedrooms and a steel-and-glass elevator.—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026 The skyline placed Union Station over the shoulder of Royals owner John Sherman.—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026 The Kennedy Center is hardly the first fixture of the Washington skyline to undergo lengthy renovations.—ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for skyline
Set the scene The faint outline of distant mountains shapes a far-off horizon, where the spluttering of racing 4x4s belongs to another world.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Apr. 2026
Methane traps around 80 times as much heat as CO2 over a 20-year horizon, making the emissions from a buildout of this scale difficult to quantify but impossible to ignore.
Lomu hardly fits the profile of lineman prospects drafted under Vrabel, a player who is not considered overly aggressive and does not play with an edge.
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Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
25 Apr. 2026
Roseman could draft for the next few years and might not find a tight end with that athletic profile or an offensive tackle with that size, and those are realities that the general manager values when making the evaluation.
While these tools remain limited, they have been explored deeply over the past few decades — not just for the sake of ultrafinitism, but because sorting out the shape of things is important for developing a finite physics.
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Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
The Keys sink into tunes by RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, and Jessie Mae Hemphill, with second guitarist Kenny Brown and multi-instrumentalist Jimbo Mathus adding depth and shape.
The idea to create these pieces, which deftly straddle the world of art and fashion, came from a sketch that founder Erin Saluti made more than a decade ago—her dream purse, made from a block of wood.
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Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
28 Apr. 2026
The series was developed by Sudeikis, Lawrence, Kelly, and Hunt as based on a character from an NBC Sports sketch.
Any structure one then builds with these points, lines, and curves must also be finite, providing a discrete analogue of classical geometry.
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Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
Remi replaces that process with satellite imagery and LIDAR (light detection and ranging), which together map the geometry, pitch, and surface area of a roof without anyone setting foot on the property.