Empire State Building

1. An office building in New York City, over one thousand feet high. Opened in the 1930s, it was for many years the tallest skyscraper in the world.

The movie monster King Kong climbed this building.

Example Sentences

From its mills in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York rolled out the H-beams that held up the Empire State Building.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

The National Wildlife Federation calculates that we throw away 35 million tons of yard waste a year, which is apparently enough to fill the Empire State Building 135 times.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

Scenes switch effortlessly from Prague, with its shadowy bridge looming over the Moldau, to a Brooklyn tenement, a busy office, a tony art gallery, and the roof of the Empire State Building.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

He’s gearing up to climb 86 floors of the Empire State Building in New York City in October.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

If this was a director’s debut film, people would praise it to the top of the Empire State Building.

Read more on Los Angeles Times