a roof over your head

Examples of roof

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The spatial intensity of the brick surfaces used for walls, roofs and floors heightened the awareness of the space and its intended use.
There were loft conversions, several in 'pentices' (passages) between two houses with an entry below, and the addition of dormer windows in roofs and gables.
The important 'fragments' are the walls, floors, ceilings and roofs and how they meet establishes so much of the space's character.
The small central roofing part of the parietal has a gently concave dorsal surface.
The third hole is roofed by the leaflets of the aortic valve.
The floors and roofs were made in wood.
Even non-wage households were more likely to have cement floors and metal roofs than were lowwage households.
Rainwater drained from the hut roofs into tanks was sometimes tainted with salt and fragments of seaweed after gales.
The embankment buildings are designed with grass roofs.
The women helped to lift them up to the roofs.
Between the first and second levels, brick volumes penetrate the roofs.
A plastic cover was stretched under the roofing sheets to facilitate hand catching of mosquitoes.
Seedlings at open, disturbed sites were attacked more than seedlings protected by small roofs and trenches or those under a closed canopy.
Within these neighbourhoods most of the traffic seems to have taken place on the roofs.
Buildings were erected along existing streets, and soon roofed over with a timber arched truss barrel vault.
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Collocations withroof

roof

These are words often used in combination with roof.

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canvas roof
The film opens with water dripping through the canvasroof of a caravan onto the face of a crying baby.
conical roof
The conicalroof was replaced in the 17th century.
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