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Example sentences for "penthouse"

Lexicographically close words:
pentameter; pentameters; pentateuchal; pentatonic; pented; penthouses; pentoxide; penult; penultimate; penumbra
  1. These arrangements being made, the frame is set upon the table, the penthouse is placed over it, and the steam is admitted during from 35 to 45 minutes, according to circumstances.

  2. This kind of penthouse may be raised by means of a pully with cords fixed to the four angles of the roof E B; and it rests upon the table G H, a little larger than the area of the box, which stands upon the four feet I K.

  3. At length Sergeant Crisp reached the crag against whose base the penthouse leaned in which the sleeping Indian lay.

  4. In due time the Indian finished eating, rolled up the fragments carefully in a rag, and then proceeded to construct with the poles and brush which he had cut, a penthouse against the rock.

  5. She saw her brother motion the Sergeant round to the farther corner of the penthouse where it ran into the spruce tree, while he himself, with a revolver in each hand, dropped on one knee and peered under the leaning poles.

  6. We see the War-God glorying in his might; Up to the roof we see the Danaans pour; Their shielded penthouse drives against the door.

  7. Within its penthouse eave an oil-lamp flickered before the frescoed Madonna and Child; the shelf in front of the picture was heaped with flowers just beginning to fade.

  8. She said nothing for a little, and her hands still made a penthouse for her face.

  9. At the farthest end of the room they likewise formed a penthouse of the tables, under which they proposed to breakfast, secure from the pelting storm, if it should again assail them through the trap-door.

  10. They crowded under the penthouse as soon as it was ready, and their admiration of its ingenuity paid the workmen for the job.

  11. In his dreams he was in a penthouse on the fifteenth floor and below him were beggars like moving dots.

  12. He was no longer in a penthouse but was a sidewalk-based seamster with his little antique sewing machine, a pedal, and a hill of torn clothes he was supposed to sew.

  13. Maragon's penthouse office has glass walls on two sides.

  14. The city was shrouded in a low layer of cloud, and his glassed-in penthouse office was gloomy with the morning.

  15. When all was ready a strong body armed with picks and crowbars entered the penthouse and began to labor to cut away the wall of the keep itself.

  16. The penthouse was about forty feet in length, and the assailants were piercing three openings, each of some six feet in width, leaving two strong supporting pillars between them.

  17. These were dragged through the breach, and were, in spite of the efforts of the archers and of the men-at-arms with their stones, placed so as to form a sort of penthouse against one side of the keep.

  18. The shop was open in front, a projecting penthouse sheltered it from the weather; two or three bows lay upon a wide shelf in front, and several large sheaves of arrows tied together stood by the wall.

  19. The beams of the penthouse were too strong and too heavily weighted with earth to be removed, and the attempt would only have entailed useless slaughter.

  20. The lights in his penthouse office were turned low, muting the already dull earth tones of the walls.

  21. As he turned and stationed the sword across his desk, he surveyed his penthouse domain and understood why heads of state must feel such isolation, such impotence.

  22. The view was particularly inspiring from the fifty-fifth-floor penthouse of the granite-clad Mino Industries building.

  23. He counted the roofs dividing the penthouse from where Morris Street bisected the block.

  24. There was a faint crash and a tinkle of glass as the bottle of red ink struck the penthouse roof just over the beast's head and deluged it with its vermilion contents.

  25. He goes to the penthouse and sits down on a form].

  26. Seeing that she is going to pin the badge on his collar, he retreats to the penthouse in some alarm].

  27. Those who come from this central gable end into the yard have the gateway leading to the street on their left, with a stone horse-trough just beyond it, and, on the right, a penthouse shielding a table from the weather.

  28. I want you to install it in the penthouse above the drum, and I will assure you that if I ask you to send out my two messages, it will not be until after Jones has given his consent.

  29. When they have broken through the lower door, we can stand here between the penthouse and the chimneys, and by keeping down below the parapet be comparatively safe.

  30. Edestone first went over and examined this penthouse with great care.

  31. He also explained to him about the instrument that was in the penthouse on the roof of the Embassy.

  32. When all was ready a strong body armed with picks and crowbars entered the penthouse and began to labour to cut away the wall of the keep itself.

  33. By good chance, we find you awake; else had we passed the night under some penthouse or such, hereabouts, and come to drink your health in the morning.

  34. Jerningham first led the way to a small penthouse in one corner of the yard, where he desired that Sir Clement and two of the men should remain until he saw how the captain took the new commands.

  35. One of the Professor's penthouse brows raised itself about half an inch, but he did not speak.

  36. Mr. Carlyon watched his little pupil from under the shadow of his penthouse brows with the deep speculative interest she had aroused in him from the first.

  37. His old pupil shook it heartily, and Cheiron, seeing that joyous light in his eyes, raised his left penthouse with a whimsical smile.

  38. Things are changing, Halcyone," he had said, with the whimsical raising of his left penthouse brow.

  39. Cheiron's left penthouse went up into his forehead.

  40. Next morning Mr. Carlyon received her letter as he began his early breakfast; and he tugged at his silver beard, while his penthouse brows met.

  41. The old man watched her from under the penthouse of his eyebrows with a curious smile.

  42. When the Professor was in an amused and cynical humor he always read Lucian, and although he knew every word by heart, it still caused him complete satisfaction, plainly to be discerned by the upward raising of the left penthouse brow.

  43. Here and there a lord took off the lacquered hat which looked like a circular shield and hung it at his belt; then he fixed his open fan in his hair twisted like a rope, so that it projected like a penthouse over his forehead.

  44. The big lanterns swelling forward at either side of the entrance had been drawn in and fastened by hooks; a small penthouse sheltered them.

  45. Shot and shell struck the engine, the iron penthouse roof over the siege-piece, the flat car, the bridge itself.

  46. The nightingale on the thorn was silent, and the embers of the fire on the hearth in the penthouse had sunk to a grey wood ash, that only now and then the light breeze fanned to a faint pink glow.

  47. He followed the man, stepping as quietly as his heavy shoes allowed, accommodating his pace to that of the man in front, and taking advantage of the shadow afforded by the penthouse fronts of the closed shops.

  48. This time, in addition to palisades freshly made, they carried with them a number of rough frameworks penthouse shaped, fashioned from stout saplings bound together, like the bridge, with withies from the marsh.

  49. At the farthest end of the room they likewise formed a penthouse of the tables, under which they proposed to breakfast, secure from the pelting storm, if it should again assail them through the trap- door.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penthouse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    building; ceiling; chambers; consulate; dacha; deanery; eaves; edifice; embassy; erection; fabric; farm; flat; hall; house; housetop; lantern; lodge; overhead; parsonage; penthouse; rectory; roof; roofing; rooftop; shed; shingle; skylight; skyscraper; structure; suite; tenement; top; vicarage