roof
Example Sentences
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Who expected that Notre-Dame Cathedral would emerge from the debris and lift its spire once more over the roofs of Paris, just five years after the fire of 2019?
My parents gave me a roof over my head.
“If you tell me I need a latch from 1922, I’ll find it. When we had to replace the roof, I brought nine different samples to the Mills Act office downtown — all meeting California code.”
From Los Angeles Times
He built a hut of driftwood logs and good strong branches, with a palm-thatched roof and a hard dirt floor.
From Literature
“I didn’t want to shout it from the roof,” Ben Hania explained.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
