Example sentences for: roof

How can you use “roof” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Built as part of a new outer defensive wall in 1512 it originally had a flat roof — the ornate peak giving it such panache was added by de Keyser later in 1606.

  • At 9:06, the NYPD Chief of Department instructed that no units were to land on the roof of either tower.

  • Even Jackie (Tommy Bone), Dunph's wheelchair-bound brother ("He had a freak accident at touch football and fell off a roof," explains Dunph, in a voice-over), gets to be in on the jokes instead of the object of them: In one scene, he feigns extreme cerebral palsy so that he and his brother can have great seats at a football game.

  • Republican congressional leaders reportedly hit the roof over the governors' defection and, under that pressure, they fudged their stand somewhat.

  • General knowledge that these air rescues had occurred appears to have left a number of civilians who worked in the Twin Towers with the false impression that helicopter rescues were part of the WTC evacuation plan and that rescue from the roof was a viable, if not favored, option for those who worked on upper floors.


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