Sentence examples for ceiling not from inspiring English sources

Lying there silently staring at the ceiling: Not into it.

It's a move that, if realized, would shatter the glass ceiling not once, but twice.

He emphasised the new cap was "a ceiling not a target".

The rough floorboards, dark wood and stamped-tin ceiling, not to mention the Cinerama-scale mahogany bar, screams 1910.

DEBT CEILING Not a new term, but now familiar to all: the limit to the amount of money the federal government may borrow.

The room was not too big and the ceiling not too high, so that the sound waves had no time to distort," he says.

But the house still needed new floors, walls and ceilings, not to mention furniture and appliances.

But he was convinced that he wanted crystal floors and mirrored ceilings — not everywhere, of course, but in a few strategic locations.

Both developing countries, it is said, also wanted to be able to jack tariffs up above existing ceilings, not merely those set in a Doha deal.

(Note that adhesive hooks only stick on to flat ceilings, not textured ceilings).

The alarms may be installed on or near the ceiling -- not necessarily on the ceiling.