For many years it was a thatched edifice, but now has a slated roof.
The two formerslated the roof, and the last was the local carpenter.
Half a mile or so away, nestled in trees, was the village of Omberley, with its glimpses of white walls and tiled or slated roofs.
The ivy had invaded it, and scaled every wall to the very eaves, while patches of stonecrop and houseleek, which had established themselves on the slated roof, gave it a singular aspect of complete abandonment.
The large drops descend with force upon the slated roofs and rise again in smoke.
Now and then a staff officer would set off at a gallop, and the air round the old slated spire was full of rooks whirling about affrighted with the noise.
There was nothing to be seen but the village with its thatched roofs and the slated church spire a little farther on; and a mounted sentinel stationed in the road with his blunderbuss resting on his thigh looking out into the night.
Two thousand paces in front of us, in a hollow, we saw the top of an old church spire and some slated gables, lighted up by the moon.
I like it, Tuckerman; there's something ahead, and Gordon has me slated for a promotion.
Below the Converserie rose the slated steeple of Quatre-Champs church, looming dimly through the furious storm, which seemed as if it would sweep away bodily the few poor moss-grown cottages of the village.
A most mysterious house it was, indeed, shrinking from the public gaze, even its slated roof invisible.
The hood is slated in grey, as is the roof, and the blue vault beneath is starred with golden stars, symbolizing the little heaven within.
But to others he talked more freely, and this was how it happened that the daughter of his old friend John Randolph Weyland knew that Mr. Queed was slated for an early march upstairs.
West was agreeably contrite; abused himself for a shiftless lackwit who was slated for an unwept grave; promised to call that very day; and, making a memorandum the instant he got back to the office, this time did not fail to keep his word.
In that case," the Woman responded rather grimly, "you will probably be slated for the cemetery instead.
And Ben and I will follow with as many of Pete's huskies as we think we can manage without being slated for the hospital.
I repeat you are mistaken, it's a bit of slated roof.
It's the only slated house they have on the island.
She stood for an instant uncertain whether she should go first to the yellow, slated house of the bridegroom or cross the field before her to the double-gabled cottage where the bride lived.
A castle in ruins occupies the highest point of the hill on which it is built; the large church is planted on a terrace above the cold, slated roofs of the sordid houses and narrow streets of the town.
The upper town is a tangle of little streets between mean, black houses with broken windows and rickety doors, above whose red tiled or slated roofs rise the church and the castle.
She was one of the kind that must either soar to the high places or wallow in the low ones, and I've been sorrier than I can tell that I was slated to--well, not to start her winging for the heights exactly.
It must have been slated anyhow, I think--just bound to come off however the incidentals shaped.
When he had finished building a row of good slated houses in his town, he declared that he would let them to the best tenants he could find, and proposals were publicly sent to him from all parts of the country.
Mr. Harvey desired that Mary and her sisters might have the slated house, rent free, from this time forward, under the care of ladies Isabella and Caroline, as long as Mary or her sisters should carry on in it any useful business.
There are some old houses in the city, notably at the port, where is an eminently picturesque group of two towers and two houses; one in the street is a study in slated fronts.
Or, anyhow, she's a replacement, just the way I wasslated to be a replacement for Dionysus.
In spite of what Vulcan had said, was he slated for further honors if he passed the new tests?
Some few superior crofters' houses have slated roofs, and modern grates with flues and regular chimneys.
Cowardice and hypocrisy are slated to win, and makeshift and the cheapest politics are to take possession of national affairs.
Of these some were slatedfor an antiaircraft artillery battalion at Montford Point which would provide training as well as an opportunity for Negroes' overseas to be rotated home.
Now it was reputed to be the launch site of one of the three drones slated to cross the gulfs of space.
Did it take more guts to do that than to double for a man slated to be murdered?
And yet their slated roofs smile and gleam among the foliage.
The dark and narrow church ordinarily rises from a terraced yard, enclosed by a low wall; the bell-tower is white and square, with a slated spire.
Thence you see under your feet the city, whose slated roofs reflect the powerful light of the burning sky and stand out in the limpid air with a tawny and leaden hue.
Pleasant as was my present location compared with the slippery sides of the slated roof, I was not disposed to spend the night there.
Lying down on the slated roof, with my feet resting upon the luthern window, I found I could reach the upper end of the skylight with my hands.
There is an interesting and picturesque old slated house at the entrance to the churchyard.
Here also are some quaint old slated houses; the "valleys" are not leaded, but the slates are so worked as to fold over the angles very ingeniously and picturesquely, and admirably answering the object in view of carrying off the water.
The roof is of a very high pitch, slated externally, and internally of deeply stained deal.
The next house to be slated was that of Mr. Titus Overton, lately the residence of Mr. John Overton, Grocer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: billed; booked; card; scheduled
