🇬🇧🇪🇸 skyline - horizonte : English Lesson

Meaning of "skyline" ("horizonte"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A skyline is the outline of a city, town, or landscape that you see against the sky. It is made up of buildings, towers, trees, or mountains. Every city has a unique skyline, especially at sunrise or sunset when the sky changes colors behind it.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I tried to draw the city skyline, but my buildings look like wobbly pancakes.

I built my own skyline out of cereal boxes, but then I got hungry and ate a few skyscrapers.

I tried to take a selfie with the skyline, but my giant head covered the whole view.

The city skyline was breathtaking, but all my dad talked about was traffic.

The pigeon in my photo bombed the skyline and became the new tallest building.

On the roof, she traced the skyline with a finger as lights woke. He sketched that skyline, then pointed to a broken tower and added it to the skyline in ink. They kept drawing until the skyline glowed. When the last light blinked, they laughed, kissing under the soft, familiar skyline.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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