Sentence examples for roof burning from inspiring English sources

But as soon as I lay down and closed my eyes I saw the flood, and the roof burning above me".

I remember watching the roof burning across the marshes.

Gruen had received a phone call: "Your roof is burning".

Roger Buttot, 48, an artist who lived in a row house on Russell Avenue, said he took a garden hose up on his roof when burning embers from the blaze across the street began to fly.

The timber roof started burning, but the Germans continued, not stopping until they had shot off 400 explosive shells.

Some witnesses claimed a few people trapped on the roofs of burning buildings or under flaming rubble were also shot — with their permission — to save them pain.

Then he stepped onto the roof of the burning building and it gave way.

The Leslies, huddled for what must have seemed like forever on the roof of a burning building, were rescued.

The burning roof of the six-story building fell into all the apartments on the top floor, where Mr. Stanis lived, destroying them.

(If on the roof of a burning building, jump. Something will come up. Don't worry which wire to cut; it will always be the right one.

In his 20 years as a firefighter and paramedic in Colorado Springs, Bruce Monson, 43, has had his little fist-bumps with death: a burning roof collapsing on top of him, toxic fumes nearly suffocating him.