Sentence examples for ceilings from inspiring English sources

High ceilings, ambient low lights, the jostling of besuited office workers.

"It was a way for players to understand their place in the hierarchy and to see that they could always progress - there were no glass ceilings.

Federal cabinet will consider on Monday night a substantial contribution to the estimated $1bn cost of buying and demolishing up to 1,000 Canberra homes that had loose-fill asbestos insulation pumped into their ceilings in the 1960s and 70s.

The whole Plaza de Toros complex underwent a refurbishment in the 1970s when canny restaurateurs realised that its high ceilings and open brickwork would provide the perfect setting for a series of bars and eateries.

"The games played as e-sports are designed to be watched, and have high skill ceilings – in other words, they reward ability," says Azdean, a data analyst by day, who is propped at the bar watching the League of Legends finale.

Even the complexity of his blueprints and the experimenting that went into them, like his famous solution to the problem of the shells construction (as segments of a single sphere, thus enabling the components to be mass-produced) and a similar solution to the acoustic ceilings based on the cylinder; and one for the soaring glass walls on the structure of a bird's wing.

Like all truly great artists, she fashioned a world of the imagination and invited the viewer to enter – quite literally, given the scale of some of her scrolls, which stretched over 200ft, while her installations covered floors, walls and ceilings.

It takes up the entire first floor of an elegant, listed 1891 town house, and has lofty 12ft-high ceilings, which give it an airy feel despite the lack of air con (open the French doors for harbour breezes).

The Palazzo has no air-conditioning, relying on its thick walls and high ceilings, which is fine in the more traditional apartments, into which we enviously peeped, but the gallery apartments must be uncomfortable in really hot weather.

Related: Sexism in Silicon Valley: Tinder, the 'Dave rule' and tech's glass ceiling "You bump your heads on the glass ceilings that persist in the tech industry," she said.

In reality, it set the mould for the dreary expanses of carpet tiles and suspended ceilings that have proliferated ever since; research has also suggested that open offices "make people less productive and more hostile and anxious".