Sentence examples for atop a roof from inspiring English sources

Atop a roof overlooking Manhattan's skyline at sundown Oct. 25, more than 300 public officials and proud parents of Food and Finance High School students toured a first-of-its-kind aquaponics greenhouse.

Also required were the services of expediters who shepherded the project through the labyrinthine processes of the city's building department, its Landmarks Commission and local preservation organizations to gain permission to build it atop a roof in a landmarked section of Manhattan.

Or look at the photograph of a naked bronze woman balancing on one foot atop a roof turret at the Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin, a crescent-shaped drapery billowing behind her and the moon, half-full in the night sky, balancing on her head.

What's especially notable however, is that FORBES predicted the fugitive's death the very year his life would end atop a roof in a violent gunfight with police.

From 1970 to 1975 he played out his notions of the weight of gravity in short films that showed him hanging from trees (Broken Fall, Organic), biking into an Amsterdam canal (Fall 2, Amsterdam) or sitting in a chair atop a roof before propelling to the ground (Fall 1, Los Angeles).

It begins with Derulo walking on a bridge in a city at night, before the video cuts to scenes of Derulo and his love interest hugging and drinking alcohol, as well showing him standing alone atop a roof of a building in Manhattan.

The villagers acted quickly: they set up temporary homes along the embankment, with two upright string beds for walls and a third thrown atop them like a roof.

There was a picture of two crows atop a tile roof.

A whimsical Henry Loustau pedestal gate with yellow doves atop a shingled roof distracts the eye from the charged fence wires.

Neither Dutchtub is a featherweight (the fiberglass version is 165 pounds), but they are both light enough to be placed atop a car roof, carried by a pair of reasonably fit adults, or attached to a bicycle and towed.

Earlier this year, the opening of a swimming pool, atop a hotel roof, caused local excitement.Mohamed Awale, the director of planning at the Ministry of Commerce, lauds Somaliland's regulatory reform to ease investment, but worries that without foreign recognition, Somaliland may remain stuck in "transitional" phase.