Sentence examples for over its roof from inspiring English sources

The neat green trim on the Birmingham home matched the color of the bountiful trees hanging over its roof.

They'll see a dust-covered factory, its shattered windows glowing, its chimney belching soot over its roof.

Instead, Mr. Sato said, the water roared up to the building and swept over its roof, pinning him against a steel railing, with his head just above water.

Its blue paint stood out against the bright sky, clear but for a cluster of thick white clouds over its roof.

On the way to a fire that his department couldn't reach, he said he saw a pickup truck that had water over its roof.

"The media demon pranced hysterically and gleefully over its roof each day of the year," said Simon Jenkins, a columnist for London's Evening Standard.

The Bronco rolled over, and its roof, made mostly of fiberglass, collapsed.

The Acura flipped over on its roof in the crash, and the four people inside had to be cut out by emergency workers, the police said.

One neighbor's car slid down the driveway into the street and then rolled down Eldred, zigzagging down the hill without hitting anything until it veered off the road, ran up on a small embankment and flipped over on its roof and hood, he said.

When I saw them there in their Black Maria with its chopping blue light, I came down off the bus like a hurricane and laid that vehicle over on its roof till the men it contained came crawling out the windows and I snatched them up two at a time and flung them behind me like so many paper dolls.

This was so, he explained, because the heavy automobile motor drags the vehicle nose first to the bottom and, upon reaching it, the momentum flips the car over on its roof.