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roofing

[roo-fing, roof-ing] / ˈru fɪŋ, ˈrʊf ɪŋ /


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To avoid falling victim to roofing scams, Citizens Advice suggests:

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Scammers pretending to be legitimate workmen are charging homeowners thousands of pounds for roofing work that is not completed, done badly or not necessary, according to Citizens Advice.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Yocheved Ruttenberg grew up in Baltimore, went by “Kim,” and was selling roofing door-to-door in Texas when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Inside, pieces of metal roofing, concrete and broken glass litter the floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

A large piece of tar-paper roofing sailed through the air and scudded along the fill until it hung against a tree.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

Up 15% were sales of big makers of asphalt roofing, asbestos roofings and sidings, cement, gypsum products, insulating lines, other building materials.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Germans had repaired bomb damage with their usual nimbleness, had covered vital pipelines and machinery with massive roofings of concrete.

From Time Magazine Archive

The emphasis in U. S. industry has shifted from production to distribution, and a distribution expert should be able to function with equal facility whether he is distributing Montgomery Ward merchandise or Johns-Manville roofings.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the mine is abandoned and closed these pillars and roofings remain untouched, because removing them constitutes one of the greatest dangers to life, and is one of the frequent causes of mine accidents.

From Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation by Mary Huston Gregory

Shelters were built, with panellings and roofings of corrugated iron.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Louis Creswicke


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