Sentence examples for roofless from inspiring English sources

The word "roofless" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a structure or area that lacks a roof. Example: "The abandoned building stood roofless, exposing its decaying interior to the elements." Alternatives include "open to the sky" or "without a roof."

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roofless

adjective

Without a roof, open to the sky.

  • Before the tornado we had a dining room with a skylight

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It's not just that this bus offers better views than any before it (except the roofless kind), it's the feeling that every detail has been designed with care.

The circumference of the dakhma, a roofless structure, with only one iron door with a padlock and about 18-feet high wall, is about 300 feet.

The occasion was a gathering organised by some peace-loving foundation whose name I forget (my records are in store at present), held in 1948 or thereabouts, in the still roofless hall of Westminster School, of which I was then a pupil.

Soldiers now point out a nearby patch of ravaged earth, where Thamilselvan was sleeping in November 2007 when an air force plane dropped the bomb that killed him instantly.Kilinochchi is a sorry mess of shrapnel-riddled homes, shops and other scorched, roofless structures.

There is not much to it; a few grass huts (some roofless), a primary school and a clinic.

More commonly, you will see roofless concrete shells, the ruins of communist-era collective farms or tractor stations.

"As soon as I saw the debris flying like you do on TV, I grabbed all the mattresses that we could and flung them over our heads...It lasted, it felt like five minutes, but it was the longest five minutes ever".Ms Bordwine's day-care centre is now windowless, doorless and partly roofless.

THE blackened, roofless school-building stands out against the lush green rice paddies of Pidie district, in the heart of Indonesia's Aceh province.

As they strolled along the pretty seafront, the tourists found themselves rubbing shoulders with workers rebuilding a wrecked fire station, and staring at historic churches which still gape roofless at the tropical sky.Four months after Hurricane Ivan left its trail of mayhem, Grenada is still struggling to get back on its feet.

Ahead of the European elections, to be held between May 22nd and 25th, its vast roofless atrium is adorned with a slogan in several languages—"Use your power: choose who will govern Europe" (subtly altered in the English version to read "choose who is in charge of Europe").With over 380m voters eligible to "use their power", the European election is the biggest in the world after India's.

One rebel, emerging from the rubble, drags visitors into his smoke-blackened, roofless house.

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