Sentence examples for served as a roof from inspiring English sources

A video filmed from a helicopter showed that a metal frame that served as a roof, still covered with a blue tarp, had crumpled the space where musicians were to appear.

In grade school, she decided to move out of her house and took up residence for a couple of weeks in her family's emptied swimming pool, which had a cover that served as a roof.

Tall and thin, wearing bright red lipstick, a blue V-neck sweater and high heeled boots, this trendy girl, Jinlian, is hard to imagine in her family's crude mud home, where sky peeks through the rough timbers that serve as a roof and large woven trays of silkworms -- food for the ducks -- are the main fixture in a sitting room.

UNICEF supported the initiative with school kits for the children, teacher training for parents, and plastic sheeting to serve as a roof for the temporary school structure.

The roof served as a terrace.

It includes a plaza with more than 400 swamp white oak trees, an area that will serve as a green roof over an underground museum designed by Aedas Architects with an entrance pavilion designed by the Norwegian firm Snohetta.

Nearby in Midland, Dow Solar, a unit of Dow Chemical, plans a $249 million photovoltaic plant to make residential solar shingles, which generate electricity while serving as a conventional roof.

Outside the gym the horizon is shaped by raised Tube lines and the grey Westway, which also serves as a towering roof for the vast traveller site in its shadow.

It has partially thatched roof, and served as a tithe barn.

As did the Citroën 2CV, the CCV featured a rollback canvas roof that expanded utility (and served as a low-tech substitute for air conditioning).

The stadium served as a shelter for residents who didn't evacuate New Orleans, and sustained damage including three holes in the roof.