roof

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Phrases

• roof over one's head, a
• go through the roof
• hit the ceiling (roof)
• like a cat on hot bricks (a hot tin roof)
• raise the roof

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Examples

• They found that asphalt from roofs and roads may contribute as much secondary organic compounds as all the vehicles in the region on an annual basis.

• The major horizontal roof beam, oriented east-west, is called “the sun’s path.”

• He had a cinder-block wall around the tank, so the heat wasn’t blowing toward his house, but the eaves of the roof caught on fire in the last five minutes before the tank stopped burning.

• Creating such “cool roofs” across 80% of the nation’s commercial buildings could cut annual energy use by more than 10 terawatt-hours and save more than $700 million, according to an earlier study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

• Stupid young people went back to trying to jump into pools from their roofs.

• Which is why you should: “Clap along, if you feel like a room without a roof.”

• We were on her roof talking and trying to come up with ideas, to think of alternatives to renting a studio.

• The two once lived together under the same roof, after Brooke asked Fenner to live with them.

• Some wielding signs hit the roof, windshield, and body of the car I was traveling in.

• Yeah, I mean, as far as Maggie goes, her reducing a church to just “four walls and a roof” says a lot about the character.

• The Pontellier and Ratignolle compartments adjoined one another under the same roof.

• Even as they gazed they saw its caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.