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roof

[roof, roof] / ruf, rʊf /


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Mr Cook went to the other side to climb up on the roof, from where he jumped onto the rescue ferry.

From BBC

“He was competitive in there,” Haye said, with the convincingness of someone trying to sell a home with a hole in the roof.

From The Wall Street Journal

The UK's busiest station, London's Liverpool Street, will be closed for eight days between Christmas Day and New Year's Day, for works on its roof.

From BBC

OK, this is how much a cherry picker in Hungary costs, and therefore I’m gonna take out two shots and only build half the roof.”

From Los Angeles Times

And perhaps homeowners or apartment builders have invested more in their roofs, or taken defensive measures in landscaping in wildfire-prone areas.

From The Wall Street Journal