ceiling

Fourteen years on, the wooden stairs and ceiling are still charred, and the walls are studded with clusters of bullet holes.

The floor-to-ceiling Texas flag, the single most imposing feature of the room, began to rise.

What kind of advice would you give to young women to overcome that glass ceiling?

Many, especially those who come from an economically disadvantaged background, still face a glass ceiling.

He grasps the phone in his capable hand, outstretches his long arm toward the ceiling, and angles it down just so.

Both of the orator's hands swung upward and outward, and he looked intently at the ceiling.

From above, through the ceiling, came the vibration of some machine at work, and the machine might have been the loom of time.

Poor wretches—they were afraid to refuse, yet their gorge rose at the deed, and they fired at the ceiling!

A man had come to stand beside it, his body screening the light of one of the lamps that hung from a rafter of the ceiling.

Even Henrietta stopped eating, looked upward at the dusty ceiling, and listened for a repetition of the sound.