Sentence examples for steep roof from inspiring English sources

Just last week I was up on my friend's steep roof helping to remove a tree that had fallen on his home.

He has invented footwear with adjustable pitch, so that a roofer, or a firefighter or chimney sweep, standing on a steep roof can remain upright.

He could no longer balance on a steep roof, nor was he able these days to sling a bundle of asphalt shingles off a truck.

A week later, my father began to build a bungalow with a steep roof, gingerbread trim, and a little wooden deck, like the ones he'd seen tucked into hills nearby.

A wind tunnel model study was carried out on long, low-rise buildings with a steep roof pitch to determine the effect of the length-to-span aspect ratio on the external wind pressure distributions.

At 4731 Fieldston Road, Mr. Baum created a no-holds-barred Tudor design, an asymmetrical castle of pegged half-timbering, contrasting brick and stone, leaded glass and a steep roof.

Simple dormers, frequently constructed in several rows, characterize the steep roofs of Teutonic countries.

It's a gem of Arts and Crafts architecture, with steep roofs and cream walls, built in 1906 by the architect of Stockholm's Grand Hotel.

The second floor, which will include the classrooms for the older students, is tucked under multidormered steep roofs to harmonize with the existing buildings.

Gables, steep roofs and dramatic exterior lighting, along with a wraparound porch, give it the beetling look of a Gothic mansion.

What she and other Mayo descendants had hoped for was the more traditional look of the startlingly beautiful Jackson Meadow, with its white houses and steep roofs.