Sentence examples for sloping tile from inspiring English sources

Although he sacrificed the sloping tile roof, he retained almost perfectly the intricate stone dormer.

The 1.2-hectare, or 3-acre, property has an elaborate entry gate with a sloping tile roof.

It was designed by the Paris-trained Rudolph Daus, who pulled every Beaux-Arts lever he could for the scrumptious French Renaissance limestone mansion — for example, the elaborate door frame and top-floor window dormer in front of the sloping tile roof.

Then turn into any hutong and lose yourself in a maze of these narrow lanes, lined with courtyard houses that feature sloping tile roofs.

On the hilltop by the river stood a beautiful old farmhouse with pine beams and sloping tile roofs, the rooms overlooking an open-air courtyard.

The Rogers group was executed with broad, sloping roofs of tile and crow-stepped gables, suggesting both medieval and Flemish influences.

Four roofs have been selected and monitored over a period of 2 years (2008 2010): three sloping roofs – clay tiles, metal sheet and polycarbonate plastic – and one flat gravel roof.

The restaurant is made up of nine areas, including a central room done as a courtyard surrounded by four sloping roofs with scalloped tiles.

For much of its running time, "Letters to Juliet" is content to provide touristic evidence that Italy exists: hillsides bathed in golden light; steep and stony little towns; tile roofs and gently sloping vineyards.

Today, their house made of pumice and tile stands like a gleaming sculpture sloping toward the sea.

Tegulae were originally made perfectly flat, or with nothing more than a ridge underneath the upper border, which allowed the tile to be "hung" upon a sloping roof so that it would not slide to the ground.