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Sentences using the word roof. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use roof in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for roof.

• Look at that roof! (13)
• The roof had blown up. (13)
• He could not stay beneath the roof. (10)
• I chose a roof of limes to read under. (10)
• One had no roof and another no windows. (12)
• Can there be much charm in a roof of this kind? (17)
• It has the usual allowance of red roof and veranda. (9)
• Beating hands and driving hair Start on roof and parapets. (10)
• I must be driven there for shelter, for a roof, some month. (10)
• We will begin with the cellar and proceed upward to the roof. (17)
• Fleetwood lay that night beneath the roof of the Royal Sovereign. (10)
• I expect to be under a roof of my own on Clover Street before long. (9)
• We notice a number of stained ceilings, and inquire about the roof. (17)
• Then she was gripped by the feeling that had come to her on the roof. (8)
• He hailed a passing omnibus, and made his wife get on the roof with him. (9)
• She saw a gallery at the far end, and a conical roof half made of glass. (8)
• Many porch columns rot at their base and permit the settling of the roof. (17)
• Again he followed, mounting by a ladder, through a trapdoor on to the roof. (8)
• He requires twenty years of active service to give you a roof to your head. (10)
• I had it a night or two before we left home, in the Madison Square Roof Garden. (9)
• Grub Street is the top layer of New York, and dislikes to be far from the roof. (16)
• He was faithful in his affection: Laetitia Dale was beneath his roof to prove it. (10)
• At a distance the black pattern gives the camouflaged appearance of a shingle roof. (17)
• When the ice thaws, the broken pieces slide out, leaving a defective place in the roof. (17)
• My little ones must have a roof over their heads; and, besides, there is little Maxwell. (10)
• Mindful that he was under the roof of his enemy, he remained standing, observing nothing. (10)
• The felt covering the main surface of the roof should lap over the valley metal 4 inches. (17)
• Christian watched the bright water dripping from the roof; her lips were parted in a smile. (8)
• On top of these various-shaped blocks, which these plans will form, a roof must be erected. (17)
• Over one corner of the sorry ruin, a single patch of roof still clung, but the rest was open. (8)
• Can one picture a cosey and homelike small house with either a flat or standing seam tin roof? (17)
• If dormers are built into the roof, it is customary to double the rafters around the openings. (17)
• Some exploded in the house, as could be seen by thin ascensions of smoke from the breached roof. (1)
• One son, the handsome Phaon, has grown up under our roof, while yours shelters the lovely Xanthe. (5)
• However, all vertical joints of dormers with the roof should be carefully flashed to prevent leaks. (17)
• This set her mind upon her best bedroom, her linen, and the fitness of her roof to receive a title. (10)
• But this was not enough for the audience, or for that part of it which filled the gallery to the roof. (9)
• The ridges of the roof may be finished in two ways, either with the combed ridge or the saddle ridge. (17)
• Imagine an old, white, timbered cottage with a thatched roof, and no single line about it quite straight. (8)
• It is very important to properly flash the base of the projecting portion of the soil-line above the roof. (17)
• The amount of wine in the decanter did not promise to sustain the starry roof of night and greet the dawn. (10)
• The roof of the barn is pretty slippery and the ground below hard enough to give you a smart Alpine shock. (14)
• After all, there is something invaluable about a safe roof over the head of a sportsman so dashing as Dartie. (8)
• Does he see that long, low, white house, with a tall, steep roof, perforated with innumerable narrow windows. (6)
• This gives a motley appearance to the roof, for some shingles will develop this white stain more than others. (17)
• Both courses are laid with slate set lengthwise, the length being twice the width of the slate used on the roof. (17)
• His throat and the roof of his mouth felt dry with nervousness; he put out his finger and touched his face in the glass. (8)
• In other words, the tin roof is as good-looking as the paint which covers it, for it has no color or texture of its own. (17)
• I looked from the narrow window out upon the tiled roof, but without any prospect of being heard if I called ever so loudly. (6)
• Their rambling, old-fashioned white house, with a square cupola projecting from the roof, was one of the village landmarks. (13)
• This permitted the carpenters to erect the exterior walls independently of the roof, a thing which they seem to have desired. (17)
• Now lay the floor, unless you design to have one that would be likely to be injured by the weather before you get on the roof. (17)
• Exploring my island, I found a pen of slender logs: an old structure without roof or rafters, built for what purpose I do not know. (7)
• The varieties of dormer-windows that he can put on the roof are limited to a few that are capable of being reasonably constructed. (17)
• In the preparation of the ordinary slate roof, the rafters should be covered with ⅞-inch thick, tongued-and-grooved roofing-boards. (17)
• The standing and sitting groups were closely packed together, and the expanded parasols and umbrellas formed a nearly unbroken roof. (9)
• Then the Genie lifted me into the air, and ceased not speeding rapidly through it, till I was on the roof of the house of Ravaloke. (10)
• He had saved me from the disgrace of owing money to my detested schoolmaster; and, besides, I was under his roof, eating of his bread. (10)
• Another unfortunate use of the dormer-window motif is the extension of the second floor up through the lower slope of the gambrel roof. (17)
• The palace roof that guards a crown, The mansion swathed in dreamy down, Hovel, court, and alley-shed, Sleep in the calmness of the dead. (10)
• The shapes were conical, like the Indian tents, but later the gable roof shape was adopted because of the greater interior space allowed. (17)
• The sides of dormers are made less conspicuous by covering them with the same material as used on the roof, but this is not always desirable. (17)
• He was raised and refreshed by recollected lines of a Gregorian chant he and Feltre had heard together under the roof of that Alpine monastery. (10)
• In the small house the designer has the choice of either placing these roofs above the second floor or placing the second floor within the roof. (17)
• Upon that he waved his hand and stalked majestically, and they descended from the roof into the street, criers running in front to clear the way. (10)
• It towered blusteringly above the little oaks, a great red-brick château, with a row of little round windows in its massive, thick-tiled red roof. (13)
• The chief difficulties are to properly ventilate these rooms under the roof, and to give them good lighting without making too many and too large dormers. (17)

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