Sentence examples for hits the ceiling from inspiring English sources

This feat means triggering the detonation about two milliseconds after the bomb hits the ceiling above the doomed storey.

When the country hits the ceiling, the Treasury would stop issuing new debt and start a series of "extraordinary measures," technical maneuvers to leave it with enough money to pay all its obligations.

When the country hits the ceiling — sometime toward the end of December, analysts estimate — it would start a countdown clock that would end with Washington running out of money to pay its bills.

One of the provisions in the House's latest plan is a demand that the Treasury not use any special measures to prevent default the next time the debt hits the ceiling — a provision, in other words, that would make default an even more likely possibility the next time than it will be on Thursday, when the Treasury runs out of borrowing authority.

A magic cake then has the opposite effect – she is now so big her head hits the ceiling.

A vertical approach works for a while, and then it hits the ceiling of insufficient health workers and dysfunctional health systems, particularly in countries with high HIV prevalence.

You'd hit the ceiling.

We still haven't hit the ceiling".

And Tipper hit the ceiling.

"I even hit the ceiling once.

One bullet hit the ceiling and the other hit Justin Patterson.