skyline
- the boundary line between earth and sky; the apparent horizon: A sail appeared against the skyline.
- the outline of something, as the buildings of a city, against the sky: the New York skyline.
- to outline (something) against the sky.
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Contemporary Examples of skyline
The absence of the Twin Towers in the skyline was jarring, as was the sight of tanks and humvees posted along Park Row.
Now I was content to sit next to Dad on his bed and look out the window at the orange light bouncing off the New York skyline.
I sat next to Dad on his bed and looked out the window at the orange light bouncing off the New York skyline.
But “Roar” is an impossibly catchy song, and the Manhattan skyline behind her was beautiful.
The sandal is pictured in cartoon-form against the New York skyline on a wheeled plank, held up by wires emerging from the ground.
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March 21, 2013
Historical Examples of skyline
With one hand she indicated the prairie that billowed away to the skyline.
A Breath of Prairie and other storiesWill Lillibridge
Then, free of New York's skyline, the flying building was gone with a rush.
Lords of the StratosphereArthur J. Burks
To the left of Fricourt, the spur rises slowly into a skyline.
The Old Front LineJohn Masefield
The whitish parapet makes the skyline to observers in the English line.
The Old Front LineJohn Masefield
In an old engraving, dated 1815, two figures are still to be seen on the skyline.
Hampton CourtWalter Jerrold
skyline
- the line at which the earth and sky appear to meet; horizon
- the outline of buildings, mountains, trees, etc, seen against the sky