Sentence examples for losing ceiling from inspiring English sources

"It's a disaster environmentally because you're using so much more material, and you're losing ceiling height for no good reason".

Although his clients were initially wary of losing any ceiling height at all, they ultimately agreed that Harb's instincts were right.

I attempted it a couple of times and spectacularly failed: I tried to hang myself and dragged down a ceiling, losing my deposit on the flat; I tried to gas myself in the car and ran out of petrol.

This Michelangelo lost his Sistine ceiling in 1887, and it was taken over by a clothing operation.

For the first time, industry has "skin in the game" when it comes to the assessments of the value of new drugs, because they stand to lose if the ceiling on the drugs bill is breached.

Suspended in the liminal space between everything I'd ever known and whatever would happen at the end of that summer, I'd taken to lying awake most nights staring at the ceiling, lost in the frenzied hopes and fears that only exist on the blind precipice of imminent change.

During the evenings, while other prisoners were showering, he sawed a hole about one foot (0.30 m) square in the corner of his cell's ceiling and, after losing 35 pound, was able to wriggle through it into the crawl space above.

While Congress and the White House debate over the debt ceiling, their "subjects" risk losing unemployment benefits.

All this was lost when low ceilings and electric lighting became the desired design for libraries.

Losing interest, she stared up at the ceiling, and the conversation petered out.

You may recall that the 2011 debt-ceiling fight resulted in America losing its AAA credit rating, crushed the stock market and led to the fiscal cliff.