Ahead of it, dust, twigs, rubbish suddenly ascended to heaven in rotary spirals; trees were flayed of their leaves, roofs blew up like gigantic bats.
The wind had died, the sea was glazed, and the tin roofs of Manila glistened white.
In Omagua, where the tiles on the roofs of the houses are made from the same glittering substance, and where we hang crescents of it in front of our doors to keep away evil spirits.
In that country, the houses were built with flat roofs covered with red tiles, and there was either a ladder or a winding staircase from the ground, so it was not much trouble to get up on the roof.
No indeed: they are common huts with thatched roofs on which the salt and mica glisten and sparkle as they do in the grass and sand.
Certainly not, and all my gloomy feelings passed away as soon as the fires began to blaze on the roofs at different heights of the same building.
The others are in ruins, theroofs fallen in, the beams charred, etc.
The soiled snow had vanished; the water was dripping from roofs and trees; everything was brown and bare.
Many of the houses had toppled over till their roofs touched the ground, and the whole place presented an appearance of poverty and decay strangely at variance with the smiling plains of grain, rice, and tobacco around it.
The houses, built of tree-trunks plastered with mud, had roofs of thatched reed, and were far more substantial and better built than any I had yet seen in Persia.
The streets were all white with ice, and high walls and roofs loomed black against them.
These racks should have covers or roofs to protect their contents from rain, as otherwise the feed would often be spoiled before but a small portion of it would be consumed.
The roofs are formed of boards battened with slats.
He said I couldn't miss it; and shading his eyes with his hand, Jesus caught sight of some roofs that he had not seen before.
He was glad to see that many statues stood on the roofs of the buildings and so far away that no faces or limbs were visible; but the statues in the streets were difficult to avoid seeing.
The roofs of the Bath and Bristol stations are of large span, and are handsome architectural structures.
A town, more granite than the moor itself, gradually revealed its roofs in the heart of the moor.
The November afternoon had passed into dusk, and through the window, over the roofs of Hulton Street, stars could be seen in a darkening clear sky.
The black and gold sign that surmounted its blue roofs could be seen from the top of Acre Lane and half way along Shawport Lane, proclaiming the progress of lithography and steam-printing, and the name of Edwin Clayhanger.
The prison clock tolled the hour over the roofs of the house, and Mrs. Rotherwas gave the definite signal for refreshments.
She felt amidst the walls and roofs as a young eagle feels barred up in a cage.
First the courtyard, then, the walls, the roofs of the adjoining houses, swarmed with an eager crowd.
The weed-grown tile-roofs were still dripping, and from lofty brick and low adobe walls a rising steam responded to the summer sunlight.
Let us enter; theroofs are made expressly for such nights as these.
Her eyry was high above all the other buildings, and she could look across some low roofs opposite and see the further end of Tompkins Square, with its sparse spring green showing faintly through the dusk.
Beneath him rose the clustering roofsand big electric lights, and a little lower still a broad track of silver radiance, athwart which a great ship rode with every spar silhouetted black as ebony, streaked the inlet.
Then looking down she saw men with valises pass across an opening between the roofs and express wagons lurching along the uneven road.
The roofs of the farmer's buildings were covered with it, and so were the fence rails, and even the leaves of the big basswood were white in places.
The temple-caves are seldom more than one hundred and fifty feet deep and fifty feet in width, and the roofs are supported by pillars like the interior of Gothic cathedrals, some of which are of beautiful proportions with elaborated capitals.
Some of the roofs of their public buildings were arched with stone.
San Francisco stopped laughing, and that portion of it which had roofsin the neighborhood at once began prospecting.
All San Francisco laughed at this explanation until it learned that a corroboration of the theory had been established by an assay of the dust and grime of the roofs in the vicinity of the Mint.
To see the crowds on the roofs laugh made one fear that they would fall in.
From Sandhill the coaches journeyed along the Side, which remains as steep and almost as picturesque as ever, even if not rendered additionally curious by the gigantic railway arch that spans it and clears the roofs of its tallest houses.
Still, walls could be indistinctly noticed intersecting each other, as if there were other gardens beyond, and the low roofs in the Rue Polonceau.
A somewhat extensive experience of palace-seeing had taught him that it is best to see palaces alone, for the Oriental as a guide is undiscriminating and sets too great a store on corrugated iron roofs and glazed drain-pipes.
Our roofs give plenty of warning by cracking and then collapse slowly.
All the roofs are dull lead colour, being shingled or tiled, and all the house fronts are of the colour of the wood as God made it.
From the pagoda of this temple we could see that the roofs of all the houses below were covered with filled water-jars.
You would never understand how and why we prop our roofs with those piles of sleepers.
The new houses with the low straddle roofs and windows pitched in sideways and red brick walls are Dutch.
It stood back from the road behind a sturdy wall, an irregular mass of steep pitched roofs bound fantastically at the crown, copper-green where the thatch had ripened under the touch of time, and dull grey-black where the tiles ran.
Each looked neat and clean, and was surrounded by trees and shrubs, but though the smoke curled up from several of the roofs every house seemed to have been deserted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roofs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
