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  • present participle of roof.
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roofing

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


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Burns, a 35-year-old pastor and roofing salesman in LaGrange, Ga., paid a Georgia lawyer a $2,500 retainer when his marriage came apart last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 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

The Kennedy Center closed its doors indefinitely on Sept. 15 after an inspection found acute public safety concerns, among them roofing issues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

But the report also identified improperly roofing defects, low water pressure and what inspectors described as "exceptionally poor" installation of the gas meter cabinet and gas pipe.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Sheets of charred metal roofing crumpled in the fields where the wind had blown it.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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 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

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

Everything useful or portable, everything that spoke of man's occupation, everything that suggested life and comfort—the porcelain tiles, woodwork, window-panes, roofings, mosaic or marble floors, leaden pipes—all this had been carried away long ago.

From South Wind by Norman Douglas

Fireproof roofings and projecting party walls also retard the spreading of conflagrations.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 by Various


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