Sentence examples for roof peak from inspiring English sources

Under the new rules, a home's permissible height is reduced by 5 feet to a maximum of 35 feet on most lots, with a maximum of 45 feet at the roof peak in four-acre zones.

This work, whose hot-pink sky and lavender snow make you think of Monet, presents the basic elements of Inness's mature art in a slightly crabbed, derivative form: the low, even horizon and flat expanse of ground; the landscape that could be almost anywhere; a roof peak glimpsed through the trees; and small, solitary figures.

The roof horns (tandrotrano) formed at each end of the roof peak by the crossing of the gable beams were originally silver-plated, and a silver eagle was affixed in the middle of the roof peak.

The tandrotrano horns were gradually replaced by a simple decorative finial installed at the two ends of the roof peak.

They were distinguishable from the outside by their walls made of upright wooden planks and the long wooden horns (tandrotrano) formed by the crossing of the roof beams at each end of the roof peak.

Mark the top cuts on the top chords where they will meet at the roof peak.

Roof peaks jutting from the water were the only signs of Princeville's dwellings.

He did the tin work on the roof peaks and made the weather vanes.

Double rooms with shower and toilet, most with excellent views of the town's roof peaks, are $76 including breakfast.

With its Thelma Ritter mother, sunbathing ingénue and light-touched roof peaks, it is a silly, stagy, symbolic affair.

The revised plans required variances from town zoning regulations, as it turned out, to permit the 38-foot height of the roof peaks and the reduced space between the parking lot and the highway.