ROOF in a Sentence

Learn ROOF from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
264 example sentences for ROOF, such as:
1. They could burn the roof over us.
2. Vines spiraled upward toward the roof.
3. It'll cost you to have your roof mended.
4. Water poured down the wall from the roof.
5. These columns bear the weight of the roof.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ROOF
roof
 n.  the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space
 n.  protective covering on top of a motor vehicle
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Mattie was her relation, not his: there were no means by which he could compel her to keep the girl under her roof.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  The old oaks, which had seen Indians pass under their limbs, hugged the house closely with their great trunks and towered their branches over the roof in dense shade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Her voice trailed off as she went down the long open passageway, covered only by a roof, that led into the kitchen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Scarlett digested this in silence, for she had never before been under the same roof with anyone who was not received.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  She thought Aunt Pitty the silliest of old ladies and the very idea of living under the same roof with Ashley's wife was abhorrent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  The houses were farther and farther apart now, and leaning out Scarlett saw the red brick and slate roof of Miss Pittypat's house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  Only the respect due Miss Pittypat and his presence under her roof as a guest had restrained him from showing his feelings more obviously.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  Then, there was a crash of falling timbers near by and Scarlett saw a thin tongue of flame lick up over the roof of the warehouse in whose sheltering shadow they sat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  Between the quarters and the smoked stone foundations, they found the well, and the roof of it still stood with the bucket far down the well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  They could burn the roof over us.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  Never again could Scarlett lie down, as a child, secure beneath her father's roof with the protection of her mother's love wrapped about her like an eiderdown quilt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  There would be no more matings and births beneath this roof which she had so loved and longed to rule.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  This was her last view of home, her last view except what she might see from the cover of the woods or the swamp, the tall chimneys wrapped in smoke, the roof crashing in flame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  "We haven't lost each other and our babies are all right and we have a roof over our heads," said Melanie and there was a lilt in her voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  Now all that mattered was food enough to keep off starvation, clothing enough to prevent freezing and a roof overhead which did not leak too much.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  It has a basic construction of brick under a tiled roof.
2  Vines spiraled upward toward the roof.
3  Water poured down the wall from the roof.
4  These columns bear the weight of the roof.
5  The pillars couldn't support the weight of the roof.
6  The weight of the snow caused the roof of the cabin to cave in.
7  The strong wind hurled down bits of the roof.
8  We're going to roof in the yard to make a garage.
9  On both slopes of the roof there are broken tiles.
10  The roof of the church was supported by stone pillars.
11  They're doing some repairs on the church to make the roof more watertight.
12  Complete replacement of the roof tiles would be very costly.
13  The corner of the classroom was damp where the roof had leaked.
14  It'll cost you to have your roof mended.
15  During the gale roof tiles came hurtling down.