16 example sentences using roof.
Roof used in a sentence
Roof in a sentence as a noun
I'll be damned if any son of mine is going to play an xbox 1080 under my roof!"
Last winter, we found a house where ice covered the basement up to a foot below the roof. I stepped on the ice on the stairs going down and my foot cracked through.
Yishan: Intention is to get whole team under one roof for optimal teamwork. Our goal is to retain 100% of the team.
Since they couldn't remember the perfect gas law they instead drop the barometer from the roof and time how long it takes to smash into the ground below. Then compute the height that way.
Happened to a friend of mine, his CK levels were through the roof, he ripped his heart muscle because he used adderall before workouts. For a hacker news post, I'm sorely disappointed.
So now the employee has to deal with a cheap workspace, and an open roof that all sounds and distractions leaks into. It's half-assed privacy with half of the distractions of an open floor, at 3 times the cost.
In India we say that if you have two meals a day, and a roof over your head, you're already rich! Consider that, some posts here say that SV millionaires do not consider themselves upper class.
If enough people complain their penalties will escalate and their credit card processing rates will go through the roof. This is how the credit card system weeds out crappy businesses like this.
Roof in a sentence as a verb
Rather, my blood pressure went through the roof and my body decided to **** the reset button. I took blood pressure medication for awhile and, with my doctor's help, eventually got off of it.
Falling off the roof of a house and breaking vertebrae - lifelong medication after that. Wearing out knee mechanisms due to going up and stairs with 50+ pounds in your hands daily for many years - lifelong care required.
At some point I looked up and noticed that there was now a roof over our heads. Eventually the alley narrowed to where we had to turn sideways to squeeze past people coming in the opposite direction, and there were shop counters on either side.
If I focus on what I have left "to go", the problem seems insurmountable, my stress level goes through the roof, and I never get started on what's left. Instead, I've found that the only way to make progress on a serious long-term goal is to focus on "What can I do now?"
Google has an immense amount of talent "under its roof". Unfortunately, there's a necrotic layer of useless and counterproductive middle management coming up with a series of "innovations" that each have made the company worse.
Having good health, a not-empty stomach, and a roof over your head is already a big step above a significant portion of the world's population. Now this doesn't mean you have to become a mindless lump, barely moving from the couch and uninterested in even the slightest change; but it's a suggestion that perhaps learning to be happy with what you have, where you are, and with what interests you, is, in the long run, precisely what will make you happy.
I think this also highlights how the increasingly geographically fragmented familial unit is problematic: in a culture where several generations of the same family lives under the same roof, the situation wouldn't be as dire. However, in our culture it is typical to have only small portions of a family living together, and for children to move away and live on their own, potentially hundreds of miles away.
It is almost like seeing one of those "fail" videos where a kid piledrives his friend off the roof into the backyard and both kids end up badly injured -- of course that was the end result, there was no reasonably plausible path from the starting point to any sort of non-failure ending.
Roof definitions
a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building
protective covering on top of a motor vehicle
the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space; "the roof of the cave was very high"; "I could see the roof of the bear's mouth"
an upper limit on what is allowed; "he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him"; "there was a roof on salaries"; "they established a cap for prices"
See also: ceiling
provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof