Sentence examples for atop the roof from inspiring English sources
The phrase "atop the roof" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe something that is situated on the top of a roof. Example: "The cat was lounging atop the roof, enjoying the warm sun."
Outside the Sadr office, Iraqi soldiers now sit atop the roof, their tripod-mounted machine guns overlooking the tin-roofed Sadrist prayer hall, which lies half-demolished.
It was a large glass house atop the roof of some incredible building downtown.
But when I pulled up, I noticed something downright odd: an enormous Holiday Inn sign atop the roof.
Best of all is the familiar orange Xanthoria parietina, which sits atop the roof like a miniature thatch.
The exterior has an ornate scalloped fascia and two intricate lathed balconies; atop the roof are an antique farm bell and a skier weather vane.
One sunny afternoon during the dry season, Mallam Sile was seen atop the roof of his shack with hammers, saws, pliers, and all kinds of building tools.
By day's end, brainstormers were proposing to mount transmitters everywhere from beneath helium balloons to atop the roofs of Moscow's hilltop state university.
For instance, Mr. McDowell said, some Mini owners dress their cars in naughty costumes for Halloween, and two investment bankers mounted mock shark fins atop the roofs of their Minis.
The cheeky stowaways of the roaring twenties have more in common with today's young people who chronicle outlandish exploits on social media — the ones who make themselves briefly famous by sliding down the median of an escalator in the London Tube or by live-streaming themselves atop the roofs of tall buildings.
They were built atop what was once the roof of the Oceanic galleries.
Occasionally they saw newsreel cameras atop the ballpark roof.
