I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the roof of a tunnel
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The roof of the tunnel was a foot above his head.
the roof of your mouth (= the top inside part )
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He made a clicking sound with his tongue on the roof of his mouth.
vaulted ceiling/roof etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
flat
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Since we now insulate above loft ceilings and within flat roof structures, the air space above the insulation is cold.
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Those buildings include triple deckers with flat roofs and large roofs such as those on department stores and supermarkets.
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Flat repairs I want to make sure my flat extension roof is waterproof for winter.
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An adobe box is what it is, with flat roof and copper spouts to drain rainwater at either corner.
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Roofs, particularly flat roofs , can be damaged as a result of weight of snow lying on them.
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Octagonal cupolas covered by flat pitched roofs were still normal crossing space covering.
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There had once been an outside staircase leading up to the flat roof but that, too, had collapsed.
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The new, improved materials available have gone a long way towards extending the lifespan of today's flat roof .
high
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It's got this great high roof and loads of trains.
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He was unbelievably quick, his hands, feet blurs in the high roof wind.
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And counting down. 11.59 High upon the roof of the Butcher Building the boy Jonathan was up and about.
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Horses need plenty of fresh air, reasonably high roofs for stable air to get away and space to live in!
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Hodson favours the Master because of its high roof and low loading height, which makes it easier for the infirm.
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How is it that a large cavern with a high roof may be formed underground?
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There is an immense square tower in the centre and a high pitched roof on either side of it.
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Guaranteed for ten years, Sarnafil is the high technology, high performance roof of tomorrow.
low
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It washes over the low roofs of the two-storey terraces and dries the dirt on the pavements.
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Mitchell knew they must look predatory on the spread of the low roof .
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The low vaulted roof stretched for some forty feet until it met the blank wall at the far end.
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The façades are in three stages in black and white marble, surmounted by a low roof and lantern.
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This necessitated having a low roof and a side gangway in the upper saloon, reminiscent of the old low-bridge buses.
pitched
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We had to staple a polythene vapour barrier to the rafters of a pitched roof .
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Timber fascias and barge-boards are standard, while many pitched roof garages feature timber-clad gable ends.
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Octagonal cupolas covered by flat pitched roofs were still normal crossing space covering.
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The traditional greenhouse shape is a rectangular floor area, near-upright sides and a pitched roof .
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High pitched roofs contain the typical ornamental dormers.
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It has rubble-stone walls and its steeply pitched roofs make the granite-capped chimneys seem all the higher.
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But Ireland is like four pitched roofs built around a central depression.
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The late Gothic façades are surmounted with steeply pitched roofs containing tall dormer windows.
red
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All the medieval buildings were torn down and replaced by stone built ones, with red pantiled roofs .
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Outside, the storm lashed the windows, there was nothing to be seen of the sea or the red roofs .
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On the floor I saw a toy steam shovel with black sides and a red roof .
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The curator has a house downstream there, among the trees - you can see the red roof .
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The traditional houses of the living are low to the ground, topped by red tiled roofs .
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You can see peeps of the red roof across the fields beyond the chalets.
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Oh, sure, you see red tile roofs in Rancho Bernardo and brilliant tile work in Balboa Park fountains and buildings.
thatched
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It had a newly thatched roof and was enclosed inside a privet hedge.
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Green grass sprouted from the mouldy, neglected thatched roofs .
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Nobody was hurt but the thatched roof , and a quantity of hay and peat were destroyed.
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The evidence suggests that almost all the village houses in earlier days were built of dried mud with thatched roofs .
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Memorable village scenes are created by these traditional building materials, often capped with a thatched roof .
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The thatched roof of the lodge creaked as if mourning over the dreadful secrets of the priory.
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There is also a hut with a thatched roof and beside it a store room of split poles.
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It has a thatched roof over it.
tiled
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These timber-framed houses in Northampton Street, with their plastered elevations and tiled roofs , make a quite delightful contrast.
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They are permanent construction with cavity walls and tiled roofs to housing specifications.
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They passed a small, red-brick house with a tiled roof .
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Rain and hail bounced on the tiled roof with such venom that Tom and Willie were quite deafened.
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Two storeys high, the walls made of wood, it had a tiled roof and one half had been refurbished.
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Constructed of stone and with a tiled roof , it went out of use shortly after the First World War.
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Zen stood in the fading sunlight watching the courtship of two pigeons on the tiled roof of a shed below.
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The mill still survives and is constructed of stone, with a slate tiled roof .
■ NOUN
glass
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A glass roof flashed in the sun, far, far.
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The gallery is divided into three areas, all under its glass roof .
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A glass roof , hundreds of feet above us, kept out the rain.
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The original plans optimistically called for cooling coils at the peak of the 85-foot glass roof over the jungle section.
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Moonlight lay on the glass roof of the sun-lounge, blue sheets of it, like lightning paralysed.
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Under a glass roof we sat side by side, a deux, on a banquette.
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The 60 shops, with a glass roof over the courtyard, have a marketing committee on which he sits.
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One of the most striking features of the Gyle shopping mall is its glass roof .
rack
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Secondly, I want a good ¾ length roof rack for my vehicle but can only locate rather basic utilitarian models.
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People climbed over the bonnet or sat on the roof rack .
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Stacked on the floor around their legs was all the luggage that wouldn't fit on the roof rack .
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A Hillman Imp, a roof rack , the beak of an upturned canoe overshooting its windscreen.
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The roof rack was a test item and did not prove successful.
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Harvey connected the roof rack to two batteries.
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The lights fixed to the roof rack came on, but paper cones prevented them from being visible from the shore line.
slate
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Dorchester Terrace was a row of tall red houses with sloping slate roofs .
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Ranks of houses stretched away into the distance like waves breaking on a rocky shore, their slate roofs glistening.
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All can be used with tile-covered roofs , or as a contrast, with slate roofs.
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Porous state My slate roof is leaking through general wear.
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It had a grey slate roof and one small chimney, and there were two little windows at the front.
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At the foot of the bed, a window looked out on dip-backed slate roofs .
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Outside the snow was already melting on the slate roofs of the houses.
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Because the sun shone so brightly the slate roof blazed like a slab of silver.
space
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What he called his workshop was a conversion of the roof space over the detached garage.
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The upper stalls, above that, were raked like a ship heeling over, crammed into the roof space .
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The cherry berets made meticulous house-searches, even digging up the floors of some places, going into roof spaces with torches.
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Being top-hung, there is no encroachment into the roof space to consider, as there is with centre-pivoting roof windows.
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The crops were stacked right up to the roof ridge, or close to it, so using almost all the roof space .
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Power point. access to insulated roof space with light.
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Is the roof space clean and clear of rubbish?
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The raiders removed tiles to climb into the roof space .
tile
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A few were thatched, but most had iron or tile roofs .
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Oh, sure, you see red tile roofs in Rancho Bernardo and brilliant tile work in Balboa Park fountains and buildings.
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I have tended, I confess, to sneer at white stucco walls and red tile roofs .
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It makes a faint clack against the tile roof .
tin
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The house we were in was solid Victorian in style, both inside and out, except that it had a tin roof .
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I was rescued momentarily by the first drops of rain, pinging on the tin roof above us.
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In the night a ferocious hail-storm rattles on the tin roof .
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It was easy duty: all paperwork, no humping, a tin roof over his head.
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The tin roof of the verandah is home to all sorts of creatures.
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Wooden posts supported a tin roof Most people at Holy Trinity had dined in more gracious picnic shelters.
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I have a tin roof instead of bamboo.
■ VERB
build
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This property has been built with properly sloping roofs and mountain architecture.
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Near the bunker was a small, wood-framed building with a corrugated roof on it.
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And here was I, thinking you could not be building a roof without nails.
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In little villages it is often a white clapboard building with a hip roof and a bell tower.
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The Volvo Cup is the world indoor championship, but Del Mar's new stadium has been built without a roof .
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He built the roofs and pocketed all the money.
climb
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They could not open the door, so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window.
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They climbed to the roofs of the terminals, broke windows and shutters and created an ear-splitting din.
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Is there a handy dustbin or a down-spout that will assist the thief to climb on to the roof ?
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He climbed on to the roof and counted the missing shingles he would replace.
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Dean climbed off the roof and let himself into the car the way he had come.
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The raiders removed tiles to climb into the roof space.
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Raiders lifted tiles and climbed in through the roof space to take the guns and 150 rounds of ammunition.
fall
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Suddenly there was a terrible crash of thunder, and the branch of a tree fell on to the roof .
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Peggy fell off the roof of their house while fixing the cooler one summer.
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The man who fell through the roof wasn't after any of the family jewels.
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Nicola Giandomenico said it appeared more stones fell from the roof and the facade during the latest aftershock.
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Part of the chimney fell through the roof and injured Carol, Brenda's daughter.
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Any fool could throw him-self in front of a car; or fall off a roof .
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The plaintiff fell through a roof and was injured.
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Bricks had fallen and then the roof caved in, pinning Lewis under a concrete lintel.
hit
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Two shells hit the roof and one exploded in the corridor during the night.
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Top editors hit the roof Maybe one picture, but a page full of pictures of black women?
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He hit the roof when the pair left to set up home in a bedsit.
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The shell hit the roof of the building and made a mess of the inside of the building.
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He hit the roof as soon as Peter came in.
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What would Old Chao do if he saw them, hit the roof on his way into outer space?
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Its hitting the roof so soon had stopped the process.
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Well, honey, I hit the roof .
live
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His house is large, and his children are old enough to be free, though all still live under his roof .
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Throughout the last decade, information age companies struggled to find places where their disparate workforce could live under one roof .
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The rural family was a close-knit one with, at times, three generations living under the one roof .
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Yet Shaker men and women lived under the same roof in large dormitory-like houses.
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She only knew she was bitterly disappointed that she and Seb would not be living under the same roof .
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There were, quite literally, hundreds of boys and young men who lived under its cavernous roof .
raise
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And raising the roof ... the house where lightning struck twice.
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They raised the roof , his battalion of coughs.
support
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The steel racking is used to support wall and roof cladding and is an integral part of the system.
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Wooden posts supported a tin roof Most people at Holy Trinity had dined in more gracious picnic shelters.
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A thin steel cord was bolted to the beam that supported the boxcar roof .
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Cast-iron columns and a curved rib framework support the conical roof which has a diameter of 180 feet.
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The great beams supporting the roof were held in place by equally impressive timbers.
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The masts extend upwards to support the central roof and are joined together with three stages of horseshoe timber arches and timber boarding.
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We had to construct a cradle to support the roof while parts of the wood beams were replaced.
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The verandah is long and overgrown with climbing plants, which are wrapped around the varnished poles that support the tin roof .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hit the roof/ceiling
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He hit the roof when the pair left to set up home in a bedsit.
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One tankard hit the ceiling, another broke a window.
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The shell hit the roof of the building and made a mess of the inside of the building.
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The turbulence was such that his head hit the ceiling and his headset came off and fell to the floor.
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Then, he proceeded to hit the ceiling.
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Top editors hit the roof Maybe one picture, but a page full of pictures of black women?
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Two shells hit the roof and one exploded in the corridor during the night.
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What would Old Chao do if he saw them, hit the roof on his way into outer space?
low-pitched roof
raise the roof
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The crowd's cheers raised the roof.
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And raising the roof ... the house where lightning struck twice.
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They raised the roof, his battalion of coughs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I left my coffee cup on the roof of the car.
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We'll need a ladder to get up on the roof .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Above their heads the kites moved with a rustle of wings from the Club roof to the branch of a tree.
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At King Saud Mosque, Jeddah, we covered a large courtyard with an opening lightweight metal roof .
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At the last second, he jumped from the saddle and swung on the trailer roof as the horse went in.
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Four silhouettes with rifles, perched at each corner of the roof .
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He let it slither down the roof to the building's guttering.
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Is it too heavy for the roof ?
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Mitchell knew they must look predatory on the spread of the low roof .
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
low-pitched roof