RAFTER in a Sentence
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22 example sentences for RAFTER, such as:
1. Swallows swooped from rafter to rafter.
2. The big rafter is visible in this room.
3. Excited by the company they were flitting from rafter to rafter.
4. Swallows were busy with straw in pockets of earth in the rafters.
5. He contemplated the young people hanging roses from one rafter to another.
2. The big rafter is visible in this room.
3. Excited by the company they were flitting from rafter to rafter.
4. Swallows were busy with straw in pockets of earth in the rafters.
5. He contemplated the young people hanging roses from one rafter to another.
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Meanings and Examples of RAFTER
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rafter
v. provide (a ceiling) with rafters
n. one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 He contemplated the young people hanging roses from one rafter to another.
2 Swallows swooped from rafter to rafter.
3 Excited by the company they were flitting from rafter to rafter.
4 Tower after tower crashed down, with blazing roof and rafter; and the combatants were driven from the court-yard.
5 Then he came back again, and perching on a projecting rafter spoke to me with human voice, and told me to leave off crying.
6 Then Minerva from her seat on the rafter held up her deadly aegis, and the hearts of the suitors quailed.
7 But this time I found something at last; I found an old rusty wood-saw without any handle; it was laid in between a rafter and the clapboards of the roof.
8 The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud.
9 Their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor.
10 Festoons of paper roses, left over from the Coronation, drooped from the rafters.
11 Swallows were busy with straw in pockets of earth in the rafters.
12 The constant vapour which this occasioned, had polished the rafters and beams of the low-browed hall, by encrusting them with a black varnish of soot.
13 The lodge was a ruin of black granite and bared ribs of rafters, but facing it was a new building, half constructed, the first fruit of Sir Charles's South African gold.
14 The darkies were hanging from the rafters, popeyed, they were so scared, but Ma was talking to the horse like he was folks and he was eating out of her hand.
15 The fortress was a smoldering ruin; charred rafters, fragments of exploded artillery, and rent mason-work covering its earthen mounds in confused disorder.
Example Sentence:
1 The big rafter is visible in this room.
2 You start--did you hear a noise? I daresay it is only a rat scrambling along the rafters of the adjoining schoolroom: it was a barn before I had it repaired and altered, and they are generally haunted by rats.
3 Did you hear a noise? I dare say it is a rat scrambling along the rafters of the adjoining schoolroom.