Sentence examples for roof step from inspiring English sources

Alternatively, if you don't want to shingle the roof, you could skip the plywood roof step altogether and install a metal roof over the shingles.

Large snow accumulations in roof steps or beside buildings may affect human activities or lead to structural damage.

The builders combined round and pointed arches, conical roofs, stepped gables, a needlelike spire, narrow dormers and stout stone buttresses with dazzling success.

The essence of parkour is to run, jump, somersault and roll your way from point A to point B as quickly and gracefully as possible, no matter what obstacles (railings, walls, roofs, steps) are in your way.

Cats padded across the roof, each step pregnant with anticipated conflict.

The Obamas are better off than most in the area, for Mama Sarah's house has a tin roof — a step up from the mud huts with thatch roofs that are common in the village.

This is music's time of the year to peek out from its many roofs and step into the out of doors.

But Mikki Bieber's forensic science students bound up to the roof two steps at a time, eager to take part in one of the latest educational fads.

Later, the artist Mike Starn (who, with his brother Doug, created Big Bambú, the web-like sculpture on the Metropolitan Museum's roof last year) stepped up to sample a pair of upside-down goggles, but only after signing a waiver, as guests had been doing at the installations all night, even at the absurdly slow-moving carousel.

Mr Larraín said that everything would be on the table, even the possibility of capital controls, "although I know that they are the wrong way to go .Peru's finance minister, Luis Miguel Castilla, said that member countries were also looking for ways to harmonise trade mechanisms, specifically "single window" policies, which bring under one roof all steps related to moving goods.

And in Old Westbury, they  transformed a 1980s contemporary cedar shake-and-stone house into a cedar-shingle "telescoping ranch" — with a roof that steps down from two stories high on one end to one and a half and then one story.