housetop
Example Sentences
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Two generations later, during the Civil War, Moby-Dick author Herman Melville stood in the night on his Manhattan housetop as he watched the city burn.
From Time ● Sep. 19, 2014
The first shot sends a screaming firework over a housetop and into the trees.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2011
Scarcely had she moved from the British-protected waters before her crew saw rockets flare from a housetop on the Rock.
From Time Magazine Archive
A cone on the housetop lets in air which settles evenly down in a slow draft.
From Time Magazine Archive
A housetop, a dooryard, or even the spacious floor of an old-fashioned barn, as the case may be, offers just as good a chance for practice as a lake or river.
From St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various
