cloud-scraping

“Once famed as the country that rose from a colonial backwater to build the cloud-scraping Petronas Twin Towers, Malaysia has suffered a series of black eyes in recent years, including the trials of Mr. Anwar, the opposition leader.”

The Wall Street Journal: Malaysia's Premier Contends Reforms Are Real

“We tumbled in sand dunes and fished mountain streams and hiked cloud-scraping peaks just to see over them.”

Simon & Schuster: Riding Rockets

“He sent Claire home for the rest of the day and watched the Sun go down behind cloud-scraping walls of steel and glass.”

Analog Science Fiction and Fact

“Instead of barbed wire and concrete, it’s a giant piece of polished mahogany so immense it must have arrived from the rain forest in the hold of a tanker and been hoisted to its new, unlikely home by a cloud-scraping crane.”

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