under a roof
Example Sentences
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We stop at a popular shop, newly under a roof, for cheung fen, rice-flour rolls dressed in sesame, soy, and chile, and eat standing up, like before.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Many live on the street not far from where they last lived under a roof.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2025
"I don't want to see my mum stressed… I want to be under a roof before Christmas, and I want all of us to be happy."
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2023
Homeless people and their pets can now sleep under a roof and find shelter from the low temperatures at the La Salle Sao Paulo school facilities, which can house up to 150 people per day.
From Reuters ● Jul. 30, 2022
Bessie supplied the hiatus by a homily of an hour’s length, in which she proved beyond a doubt that I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
