Sentence examples for top of roof from inspiring English sources

The tent spires degenerated into mere decoration; they were used as exterior ornamental features set loosely in numbers over gabled roofs and on top of roof vaulting (for example, the church of the Nativity in Putinki in Moscow, 1649 52).

One of the geezers shins, in a twink, to the top of roof-high scaffolding, which, in a brilliantly brazen moment, flares with fairy lights, while synthetic snow falls and 'Walking in the Air' pipes.

Trains are also often overcrowded, with people riding on top of roofs and hanging out of doors.

Buses overflowing with Boca fans (some hanging out of windows and riding on top of roofs) had to make a hasty and chaotic exit.

People who within a minute's time lost all their possessions, lost their homes and apartments, lost their automobiles and were rescued on top of roofs.

They lay alone or in groups of five or 10 or 20 in fields and parking lots, in gardens and on pavements, next to telephone booths and on top of roofs.

Ten green roof modules were placed on the Atrium roof on top of the roof surface, which was made up of grey concrete pavers.

It's fun to see people grow under your own roof — on top of your roof".

A Japanese statement said that as there is already a global moratorium on commercial whaling, adding a sanctuary here was unnecessary - "building a roof on top of a roof".

Lay a strip of felt at the bottom of the roof and move towards the top of the roof with each new strip.

Waters in some areas had reached the tops of roofs, shut down roads and power, and devastated entire neighborhoods.