Sentence examples for rafter from inspiring English sources
The word 'rafter' is correct and commonly used in written English
It is a noun that refers to a long horizontal beam that supports the roof of a building. It can also refer to a person who specializes in constructing roofs. Example: "The old barn had strong oak rafters that had stood the test of time."
noun
One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.
Now the power works, says Sasha the rafter; we're not ashamed to see the president on television, says Katya.
The framing of houses generally proceeds in one of two ways: in platform (or Western) framing floors are framed separately, story by story; in balloon framing the vertical members (studs) extend the full height of the building from foundation plate to rafter plate.
The simplest illustration of load and support in construction is the post-and-lintel system, in which two upright members (posts, columns, piers) hold up a third member (lintel, beam, girder, rafter) laid horizontally across their top surfaces.
The string is hanging comfortably from a rafter in the potting shed.
And he unpacked his saddlebags and pulled his blankets out of the sack hanging from a rafter where they were safe from mice.
I considered ending my life by looping the cord from the cell-phone charger over a rafter.
Alan Keyes, talk-show host, holy-roller social conservative, Maryland resident and sometime presidential candidate, will take Mr Obama on.The thinking behind this is beguiling in its simplicity: the Democrats have a black man who can give a rafter-raising speech, so we had better find a rafter-raising black man too.
But the most memorable moment, the one that demands immediate distribution, came after the "Apollo Medley" — a medley of Smokey Robinson a cappella and a rafter-raising version of "634-5789".
From its rafter-rattling victory over Georgetown earlier this season to its upset of Duke the last time it played at Madison Square Garden, St. John's has brought the kind of vitality to the arena that was missing for nearly a decade when the Red Storm took the court.
RAFTER--James Philbin, 91, of Bay Shore, L.I. on March 6, 2010.
Pat Rafter, the No2 seed, failed in his attempt for a fourth consecutive Heineken Trophy title yesterday.
