Sentence examples for towering roof from inspiring English sources

Its towering roof was held up by a forest of wood pillars and its enormous gilded statues inspired awe.

"See that one?" our guide, Marlene Fenstermann, called out, pointing to a towering roof barely visible over a windbreak of pines.

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.

­Under the towering glass roof of the Grand Palais, French artist Christian Boltanski's installation, Personnes, ­addresses questions of fate, death and God, using 50 tonnes of old clothes, borrowed from charity shops, to which they will be returned when the exhibition ends.

Owen Quinn, a Queens skydiver, parachuted from the north-tower roof.

The water tower roof was recently struck by lightning, residents said, adding to their feelings that it is not an ideal spot for missiles.

So each year Zeckendorf Towers' roof could prevent about 283,500 gallons of storm water from flowing into the city's sewers and its flood-prone subway system, which has a major station below the towers.

That many more lives were not lost seems even more remarkable when you consider, as the authors point out, that the fireproofing of the towers' roof trusses was dangerously substandard.

He displays his engineering side in "To Reach the Clouds" when he discusses the intricacies of covertly transporting his equipment to a tower roof and the all-night project of rigging the cable.

"Some large granite blocks fell into the tower roof but fortunately none hit the bells.

He added that a number of major works were required over the next 10 years, including painting, work on the tower roof structures, waterproofing the footway, and replacing staff accommodation.