rafter
Example Sentences
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The three of us are sitting at the end of the dock on an old, unzipped sleeping bag that Nate dug out of the rafters of the shop.
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The mud wasps had built their big nest against a ceiling rafter.
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She scoffed, and her gaze briefly flew up to the rafters.
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Perched in the rafters of one gallery are two large dolls in the style of these figurines.
From Los Angeles Times
All that crackling pressure on one athlete, the hushed ooooooohhs from the rafters, all of it.
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