Sentence examples for acts as a ceiling from inspiring English sources

A chunk of the High Line acts as a ceiling, and the atmosphere is cacophonous but friendly, with elements of the frat house, thanks to two purple table-tennis tables (people use them even when they're littered with majestically tall beer glasses), as well as the fairground, owing to a ticket booth at the entrance where you buy $8 stubs, one for each draft beer or food item.

The price acts as a ceiling to keep costs low and would fall slowly over the 20-year life of the system.

In his winning plan, he used only the top thirty feet of the foundation for the section into which people would descend to view the exposed wall; a new floor would be constructed that would help support the wall and would act as a ceiling for the space below, which would be used mainly for garages and service areas.

This would act as a floor not a ceiling: local authorities could choose to set their eligibility threshold more generously but would not be able to tighten their criteria beyond the new national minimum threshold.

Welfare functions in many ways as a ceiling.

Joachim and Anne is an old-school school, with towering ceilings, school uniforms, an ancient public-address system, and a principal, Linda Freebes, who acts as a kind of air-traffic controller not just for the school but for the neighborhood.

The test results suggest that (1) a niche opening (short drift excavated for this study) acts as a capillary barrier; (2) a seepage threshold exists; and (3) the seepage is a fraction of the liquid released above the ceiling.

He acts as a psychologist.

An ocean acts as a mirror.

It also acts as a disciplinary council.

Shame often acts as a depressant.