Sentence examples for shingles up from inspiring English sources

It takes a lot of strength to lug 50 pounds of shingles up a ladder and onto a roof".

At 15, Mr. Jacomo dropped out of school and became a laborer, humping roof shingles up ladders for 80 cents an hour.

They were meant for weak and fancy people - like the summer folk from Massachusetts - who couldn't dig a cellar by hand or pound in a post with a sledgehammer or lug a brace of shingles up a ladder onto the roof of some swaybacked old house.

"I used to be a real hard-core Republican closed-border type," the roofer told me the other day, as we watched one of his employees haul a slab of asphalt shingles up a ladder that he'd braced in the back of a Nissan pickup.

Use caution when carrying bundles of shingles up ladders.

I'd flipped through a few 'How-To' books, before hanging my shingle up on a small corner of the Internet.

In winter, sea storms rage, while biting Siberian winds push through the shingle and up through the floorboards of the fisherman's cottages strung out along the road to the lighthouse.

Baking sun and drying winds in summer, with no shade to be had for miles in any direction and in winter, sea storms laced/poisoned with salt water or biting Siberian winds unfettered as they push through the shingle and up through the floor boards of the row of fisherman's cottages.

"In the past the areas lost to flooding or storms would be offset by new areas of sand or shingle thrown up by the sea," said Mr Hibbert.

"Whether you have a shingle up in Park Slope or in Maine, you are going to have some need for an appreciation of international legal issues".

Butt a full shingle up against the cut shingle and nail into place.