Sentence examples for roof turning from inspiring English sources

But a home-made mortar fired by the FARC crashed through the church roof, turning the building into a slaughterhouse.

She returned to a place where the mayor had been run out of city hall by storm winds that punched a massive, jagged hole in the roof, turning the building into an outsize, end-to-end pass-through window.

Were it not for my pathological fear of heights, I would swap places with him in a heartbeat – out in the open, sitting bare chested on someone's roof turning chestnut brown in the blazing sunshine.

It is entered through two massive gates, each topped with a sculptural, multilayered cedar shingle roof turned up at the edges.

We were struck by the fact that both senders, althoughunder the same roof, turned to Western Union in order to get in touch with each other.

And the Gen.2's roof turns out to be too low for adults in the rear to sit comfortably.Proton has always violated every principle of economics and car making.

He and others on the roof turned to look up the hill, where a throng of Turkish soldiers chanted army cadences as they did laps in their fenced-in base.

She is uneasy when Elie Wiesel sacrifices some of the Jewish specificity of "Night" in translating it from Yiddish to French, or when Anne Frank's diary is altered in its dramatization to minimize its Jewish preoccupations, or when the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" turns Sholom Aleichem's Tevye on his head with assimilationist sentimentality.

But come 9 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays, Mr. Ahmed, like virtually everyone else in this monsoon-swamped ghetto, ignores the leaky roof, turns on a cheap black-and-white television and watches the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire".

The glass roof turns opaque from clear at a finger tap's command.

An elegant brown sedan with a cream roof turned slowly into Downing Street.