Sentence Examples

1. Now and then we passed a moorland cottage, walled and roofed with stone, with no creeper to break its harsh outline.
2. A corner of the building was then roofed in such a manner as to exclude the heavy dew of the climate, and piles of sweet shrubs and dried leaves were laid beneath it for the sisters to repose on.
3. Whole villages of square stucco, low roofed, hardly bigger than sheds.
4. I began to occupy my house on the 4th of July, as soon as it was boarded and roofed, for the boards were carefully feather-edged and lapped, so that it was perfectly impervious to rain but before boarding I laid the foundation of a chimney at one end, bringing two cartloads of stones up the hill from the pond in my arms.
5. As for style, many homes seemed to keep their outer segments open to the outside world, with roofed porches encircling much of the building.
6. The small front area had been walled off and converted into her shop, with a small porch and roofed entrance that jutted out toward the road.
7. Where there had been fifteen stone-built cottages roofed with heather, now there were fifteen smouldering funeral fires.