Example sentences for: rooftops

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

  • Porcelain friezes adorn the rooftops and ridgepoles, telling the story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

  • Using rooftops and truck convoys, the group conducted, concludes the Times , at least nine germ attacks on such targets as the Japanese Legislature, the Imperial Palace, and the U.S. naval base at Yokosuka.

  • Open resistance flared so quickly that only two months after the invasion . . . almost the entire population of Kabul climbed on their rooftops and chanted with one voice,'God is great.

  • Even if the doors had not been locked, structural and radiation hazards made the rooftops unsuitable staging areas for a large number of civilians; and even if conditions permitted general helicopter evacuations-which was not the case-only several people could be lifted at a time.

  • The center of the capital is a kaleidoscope of golden rooftops, multicolored costumes, steep temple steps layered with wares like market shelves, country women hawking produce spread on the streets, sari-draped matrons placing flower petals on altars to grimacing gods, the sudden eruption of a band of musicians or a herd of goats across your path, the scent of marigold garlands and of dumplings fried in oil, the constant jangling of bicycle bells and rickshaw horns.


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