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roof

noun as in building covering

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Which is why you should: “Clap along, if you feel like a room without a roof.”

We were on her roof talking and trying to come up with ideas, to think of alternatives to renting a studio.

The two once lived together under the same roof, after Brooke asked Fenner to live with them.

Some wielding signs hit the roof, windshield, and body of the car I was traveling in.

Yeah, I mean, as far as Maggie goes, her reducing a church to just “four walls and a roof” says a lot about the character.

The Pontellier and Ratignolle compartments adjoined one another under the same roof.

Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.

First the chimneys sank down through the roof, as if they were being lowered into the cellar.

The tower has four clock faces, pinnacles at the angles, and a steep slate roof and is 120 feet high.

Then the roof itself, with its gables and dormer windows, softly folded itself flat down upon the top of the house, out of sight.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to roof, such as: ceiling, house, canopy, covering, crown, and cupola.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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