How To Use Ceiling In A Sentence

The old ceiling and bar brought back many memories of happy carefree days of yore to those present.
To make such a rectangular and austere space appropriate for music, walls are treated with acoustic plaster and ceilings are absorbent too.
The features in this home are just too many to mention such as coffered ceilings, multi-light windows, heavy door and window casings, and other elements that give this home great charm. WN.com - Business News
The ceiling he had just plastered fell in and knocked him off his ladder.
The easiest way to support vine crops like cucumbers and tomatoes is to tie their stems to polyethylene string running from a support bar attached to ceiling hooks or from a support frame.

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The light, a single bulb in an ethnic basket, was suspended from the ceiling and lit just the table.
A top bunk was then pulled down from the ceiling, complete with ladder.
Inside, Ms. Savage accented the home's 16-foot coved ceilings—original from 1926—and espresso-colored floors with earth-toned couches and classic pieces, using a long wooden bench as a living room coffee table. A Gossip Girl's Main Stage
Option 1 is to connect the supply cable as a spur to an existing loop-in ceiling rose or junction box.
That night I lay flat on my back and stared up at the ceiling.
Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
All homes will have high ceilings and large windows. Times, Sunday Times
Once inside they unscrewed four projectors hung from the ceiling and took four laptop computers and a digital camera, worth a total of £5,050, before leaving by the main entrance.
Angelica points up and shows them the scrollwork along the ceiling, which makes them ooh and aah. The Kitchen Daughter
Her walls are papered with postcards and record covers, while lingerie, feather boas and a plastic blow-up doll hang from the ceiling.
But the lowish ceilings are a giveaway. Times, Sunday Times
The new aircraft will also allow pilots to increase their flying hours from 150 to 200 because of the aircraft's higher operating ceiling.
I found myself in a salon with a very well-painted, highly varnished floor; chairs and sofas covered with white draperies, a green porcelain stove, walls hung with pictures in gilt frames, a gilt pendule and other ornaments on the mantelpiece, a large lustre pendent from the centre of the ceiling, mirrors, consoles, muslin curtains, and a handsome centre table completed the inventory of furniture. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
Inside are row upon row of metal shelving on rails, containing thousands of boxes stacked to the ceiling. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the frescoes on the ceiling are gone, but there are ornate chandeliers.
Rooms feature beamed ceilings, exposed stone walls and sunken baths. Times, Sunday Times
He lay looking at the ceiling, trying to puzzle things out.
A single electric light bulb dangled from the ceiling.
Its massive back pushed up against the ceiling; the wooden timbers groaned and dust sifted down, making Rafe cough.
I think it might be one of those weekends where I keep myself to myself, inhale deeply and exhale loudly, and stare at the ceiling.
Features include mouldings, polished timber floors, high ceilings and decorative plasterwork.
Jay snuggled back down into his goose down pillows and picked up a tennis ball to ideally throw at the ceiling, then he looked at Chris who was still fumbling with his words.
Decorated in pale green, it has decorative ceiling plasterwork, a white marble fireplace and French doors to the back garden.
The units will have fully fitted offices with suspended ceilings, recessed lighting, painted and plastered walls, perimeter trunking and gas fired central heating.
They didn't do much apart from eating daddy long legs and making bunchy webs which hang from the ceiling.
Numerous period features remain: the Victorian staircase with its carved wooden banisters, the 1820s ornate stuccoed ceilings, the many stone and marble fireplaces.
A rather odd thing has just just occurred in the life of nerdy high school student Peter Parker; after being bitten by a radioactive spider, his body chemistry is mutagenically altered in that he can scale walls and ceilings, and he develops a "spider-sense" that warns him of approaching danger. Listal promoted
There was the glass ceiling, the unequal pay, and while feminine qualities of leadership transformed the work world, they did so often at a cost to personal life.
Rather than open beams, the room has a plaster ceiling formed into rectangular panels but leaving the central wood beam uncovered. Times, Sunday Times
Millions of federal employees may not receive paychecks unless Congress raises the debt ceiling.
Working your way across the ceiling widthwise rather than lengthwise, begin painting a series of overlapping W's until the ceiling is mostly covered.
It took more or less a whole day to paint the ceiling.
The bill does not propose to impose a ceiling on the level of interest rates that can be charged by loan companies, which some organisations feel is a mistake.
A recent such program drew about two dozen pilots of high-performance and turbocharged Mooneys for a weekend in Washington, D.C. Some of the airplanes this group flies - all unpressurized - have service ceilings as high as 28,000 feet.
I gave a small laugh and gazed at the ceiling, feeling monumentally stupid and childish.
In her current role she broke through the glass ceiling as the first woman to reach senior management level in the company.
This two bedroom duplex apartment has a private entrance hall and retains original Victorian features including high ceilings, decorative architraves and period fireplaces.
He wanted us to gaze up at his Sistine ceiling and be awed by the power of divinity. Times, Sunday Times
The government has set a wages and prices ceiling of 10%.
Ceilings and floors are not to be neglected, as these lovely self-adhesive shapes could completely transform the way they look. Modern Decorative Metal Tiles by Karim Rashid
A first move is to abolish the national insurance ceiling on contribution.
The odd question took Rezo by surprise, but he put a hand under his chin and glanced toward the ceiling as he searched his memory.
Clusters of tall, willowy bamboos rose out of ten pale-pink marble planters and almost touched the high triple-domed ceiling.
A scampering noise beat across the ceiling before a little trapdoor opened with a dull thud, previously completely invisible to all in the bar.
Its mast hung in a cradle from the ceiling, and its sails were folded in neat bundles on the deck.
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. A Room with a View
The murmuring, fluttering sounds of the crowd echoed off the high ceilings and stone arches of the chapel.
Some come buzzing drunkenly off the ceiling, motor around loudly, and butt against the light.
They were in good wind now, and sent him slap up to the ceiling first time, against which his knees came rather sharply. Tom Brown's Schooldays
Yet it has frozen investing in greenfield projects and increased its debt ceiling to ensure that it can fund its investor payout. Times, Sunday Times
All the floorboards, bannisters and doors were missing, the electricity, gas and water pipes were all gone, the ceilings had collapsed and there were two gaping holes in the roof. Life in a Victorian terrace
The question is, who is liable for the cost of repairs if, for example, an undetected slow leak in a geyser causes a ceiling collapse and water damage to interior paint work, carpets and furniture?
The bed itself was framed in dark ebony, its dusky twists spiraling towards the ceiling, while the rest of the room was swathed in black and shades of maroon and blood red.
Instead of looking up at an empty balcony, audiences can instead see a fake ceiling with a picture of trees reaching up to a moonlit cloudy night. Times, Sunday Times
The light didn't quite reach the high ceiling where carved figures lurked in the shadows of a graceful groin vault.
Hanging in bags from the ceiling were more complicated get-ups. After 3 decades of dress-up, a costume wrangler takes her leave
The wigged gentleman sitting opposite, still looking at the ceiling of the court.
A slab of hyperfiber slid from the ceiling, and the final door was shut. The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
The viewer was greeted by a starburst of white lines radiating from the center of a yellow, rectangular, floor-to-ceiling field.
Attic vents can be installed along the entire ceiling cavity to help ensure proper airflow from the soffit to the attic, helping to make a home more comfortable and energy efficient.
Friday, the president received a reporter in a high-ceilinged conference room.
However, Clinton has disregarded the debt ceiling law, allowing the nation to spiral further into debt.
The crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, sending sparkles across the walls, rainbow spectra around the atmosphere were enchanting her in every way.
The ceiling is adorned with majolica lacunars.
The workers are black with dirt and perspiration that the four fans on the ceiling do not dry.
The city is fortified with 150 very strong towers, covered over with ceilings from the upper stories of the buildings in its streets like a crypt, and in a measure inexpugnable.
The carved wooden ceilings in many of the rooms are outstanding. Umbria - the green heart of Italy
It has been declared safe after interim work to build a protection deck underneath its suspended ceiling. Times, Sunday Times
The roof support structure had collapsed and the entire weight was bearing down on the ceiling.
The only thing that everyone could hear was the sound of the ceiling fan rotating.
With an original oak floor, this area also features a carved oak ceiling rose, pediments, cornices and architraves.
We're having a mixture of wall lights and ceiling lights in different parts of the house.
Goodhue shattered the glass ceiling as the first female publisher at Time Inc.
Well lit with glass doors on to the deck and ceiling spotlights. Times, Sunday Times
When I moved in the ceilings were stained with nicotine and the carpets covered in dirt and muck. Times, Sunday Times
There are wall (not ceiling) mounted clothes airers.
The lantern is suspended from chains fixed to the center of a shell cartouche with a representation of another royal crown painted on the ceiling of the Queen's Staircase.
I have told Caleb about my conversation with Fisher, and now we both stare at the ceiling, as if the answer might appear, skywritten with stars. Perfect Match
And is that an escape hatch in the ceiling? Times, Sunday Times
Tall ceilings, hardwood floors, original wood mopboards, molding, and doors are abundant through out the main level.
She loved the gracefully high ceiling, with its white-painted cornice.
She dragged out the swing and hung it on chains that dangled from the ceiling of the porch. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
The bedroom is in the roof so it's got a sloping ceiling.
The long, narrow proportions of the 2,600 sf Patisserie is reinforced by a floating ceiling running the length of the interior, drawing the patron in from Queen Street to the depths of the kitchen.
The London-based developer replaced floors, ceilings, fascia and décor in the former Corporation House which for years hosted hundreds of British Telecom staff and civil servants.
But they look up and admire the architecture, the faded paint on the bricks promoting toys, candy and soda, the tin ceilings visible through the huge windows, and every last one of them is just tickled by it all. BAR Approves Downtown Demolition at cvillenews.com
a raftered ceiling
As the dust cleared, we saw that the whole ceiling had come down.
Never mind the hole in the ceiling, " he said drily.
It's not recommended to roll paint on an acoustic ceiling, as it is very porous.
Instead, I peered up at my ceiling which I'd stippled myself.
All of a sudden the great sheltering limbs of the trees over Jasperwood look like ceiling beams in a quake-shaken house, ready to crash down.
You just dial this thing up to speed like you're turning up the ceiling-fan rheostat. BMW 640i: For the All-Business Person
It has stained glass windows and high ceilings. Times, Sunday Times
After a few hours he awoke, still twitching, and stared at the ceiling for awhile, trying to figure out what to do now.
Chandeliers dangle over blackjack tables, the only break in the acoustic-tile ceiling.
We've rewired all the electrics at ceiling height, put in a new bar floor and reupholstered.
The watery theme continues with multi colored shells in blue and green hues on the ceiling and windowed walls covered in a mirror material that's been antiqued to somewhat successfully resemble seawater.
Stones were salvaged from a fireplace found on the land, materials matching originals were used, the cable molding that decorated the ceilings was restored and the formal gardens were reborn.
The existing ceiling joists must also be fire-protected with an overlay of glass fibre insulation, and new joists installed.
We all kept bumping our heads on the loopily low ceiling.
I lay flat on my back and stared up at the ceiling.
A preliminary estimate suggests a likely ceiling of between 120 and 130 machines.
Nineteen exhibition spaces are arranged as an enfilade of rooms that define an L-shaped route through the building, with its Italian marble columns and high ceilings.
White paint makes it much more difficult to judge where the ceiling actually is in relation to the floor, thus increasing the apparent depth of the room.
The decorative plasterwork bubbled and decayed; ceilings were held up by scaffolding. Times, Sunday Times
The larger villas were equipped with hypocausts, mosaics, painted walls and ceilings, but they remained the centres of agricultural estates.
Both sides of the hall were lined with doors and even the ceiling had trapdoors spaced at periodic intervals in it.
It was a pleasant place, with high ceilings where fans swatted the air.
Upstairs is the huge master bedroom with a pitched-pine floor and vaulted ceilings.
Ahead, a line of massive, two-tailed scorpions scuttled through the eastern gate and swarmed among fallen hunks of ceiling. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
The left-hand wing houses an oval entrance porch that leads to a fine reception hall decorated in pink with Ionic columns, a marble fireplace and a lantern-style window high in the central apex of the ceiling.
Dust floated down from the ceiling and the lights flickered.
She gulped air, then pulled herself up to float as the water rose to six feet then seven feet, the ceiling was ten feet high, three feet now.
It is a variable topping-up resource to meet the expenditure ceiling.
`Called PVS ," Mr Khan murmured, turning his eyes apotropaically to the ceiling. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Keep your hips square to the ceiling, and try to avoid letting your pelvis rotate.
To that end, Colbert also constructs his walls and ceilings with a resilient metal channel that is screwed to the framing members to isolate sound.
There are damp patches on the ceilings. Times, Sunday Times
Slowly, her gaze traced up to his eyes; his eyelids fluttered open, and for a second, his gaze was unfocused, searching blindly upon the stark hospital ceiling.
The necessary rewiring, replumbing and heating upgrades coupled with the age of the property suggest it would make sense to have all walls and ceilings replastered.
Standing all day on the wet clay floor under the dropping ceiling in the faint light cast by tallow candles was grim.
The accommodation includes an entrance hall with polished timber flooring, ceiling coving, recessed lighting and understairs storage.
I`m hoping this precaution may act as a talisman to prevent the ceiling coming down...if I don`t put the dustsheet down, the ceiling will come down for sure, yes? Stripping again.
The neighbors downstairs banged on the ceiling and so then I began banging my head against the wall.
The dining room has a beamed ceiling and a wood-burning stove within a stone fireplace.
Raise your arms out to the sides, hinge at your hips, place your right hand on the shin or ankle of your right leg and point your left fingertips towards the ceiling.
And when the lights dimmed, faux snow began to float down from the ceiling and on to the sweet-smelling soil.
The floor was the same white marble, and a crystal chandelier hung from the slightly domed ceiling.
The throttle kicks in, pulling your feet off the ground, while quickly and simultaneously crushing your head into the ceiling … After two years of wishing for a zippy, noir-ish thrill ride, and mind you, being promised that by all of the hype – we only get a stingy game that traffics in potential and nothing more. DARK VOID PS3 Review – Collider.com
Annual price rises would be limited to a ceiling determined by the government in line with inflation and exchange rate considerations.
It has lots of oak-panelled walls and ceilings - and wonderful plaster mouldings. Times, Sunday Times
You can see the city skyline as soon as you step through the front door, and the only two rooms without floor-to-ceiling windows are the ensuite bathrooms. Times, Sunday Times
The high ceilings allowed them to convert the space above the kitchen into a mezzanine floor which is used as an office area. Times, Sunday Times
a room with a sloping ceiling
With a sudden gushing sound, the fans on the ceiling whirred into movement. DESPERADOES
Log fires need to burn in the grates and grand brass gasoliers to hang from the ceilings. Times, Sunday Times
They line four rooms of his house from floor to ceiling. Times, Sunday Times
The entrance to Zito's flat, like his ceilings, is going to be ripped apart in favor of chic black and deep purple. USATODAY.com - Pitching the Zen of Zito
Buttons on the cane's handle vibrate gently to warn a user to dodge low ceilings and sidestep objects blocking their path.
There was one pen stuck in the ceiling. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
He restored the brickwork, plastering, floors and ceilings room by room.
They stared up at the hole in the ceiling.
A ceiling fan can help ventilation but can also incorporate lighting and be decorative.
Rosie's shadow loomed monstrously across the ceiling as she lumbered to her feet with a threatening growl.
He had preserved them carefully in an old house, housing the books in 180 bookcases that went from floor to ceiling.
If you have reversible ceiling fans, set them in the winter to circulate the heated air collecting at the ceiling down towards the floor.
Everything screams Euro, from the glossy wine-red walls dressed with oversized posters to the throbbing house to the floor-to-ceiling stall doors and mod capsule hand dryer in the WC.
You will notice custom quality and upgrades throughout this home such as coffered ceilings, solid oak trim, slab granite counter tops and beautifully maintained hardwood floors. WN.com - Articles related to Tobacco Funds Shrink as Obesity Fight Intensifies
She was swaying from side to side and the men unshackled her from the ceiling and dragged her to a metallic chair, bolted to the floor.
If your attic has metal joists, you may want to place rigid foam insulation between the joists and the ceiling drywall.
We pass the shoe market, where hundreds of shoes hang from the ceilings on strings; the purse market, hanging by purse strings; the music mart, where the rich interdental consonants of Arabic songs consume the air; the basket bazaar; a merchant unfurling a yo-yo. Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh?
From the low ceiling hung large, black metal frames with little pear-shaped leather bags and black metal pipes at right angles.
Here is a different way to think about Barack Obama's plight: President Hillary Clinton a phrase somehow in the air just now would not have had this much trouble doing a deal on the debt ceiling. Obama's Deal With the Debt Devil
But high, blacked-out ceilings and a pattern of exposed concrete cylinders are balanced by a repeating carpet pattern.
South walls are formed of large sliding floor-to-ceiling windows with, outside them, folding panels of local reeds in aluminium frames.
The public areas have immense character, with heavily beamed ceilings and cosy open fireplaces, including an old cast iron range in the lounge.
It had a high ceiling and a luridly coloured square of carpet on the floor.
A single bulb hung from the ceiling and some one had adorned it with a preposterously frilly white shade.
Chances of people dangling from ceiling Low. Times, Sunday Times
The ceiling came down with a terrific crash.
The wallpaper was peeling away close to the ceiling.
What we did have which made it bearable is a pretty constant onshore breeze and of course ceiling fans. How liveable is year-round climate in La Penita (north of PV) without air conditioning?
A test as simple as a Detect Magic spell will show some stronger focus of magic above the ceiling of this chamber.
It also came with built-in wardrobes - the louvred kind - stippled ceilings and woodchip wallpaper, which all seemed so smart and modern in 1978.
Vix hit the retros, frantically pulled up so that the Eternal's nose was almost hitting the ceiling, and activated the belly thrusters at full power just before they hit the wall.
As a vegetarian she had been shocked to see a dense forest of cured hams hanging upside down from the ceiling. Times, Sunday Times
Its rays of light cast eerie shadows that danced on the wall and the ceiling.
Its mast hung in a cradle from the ceiling, and its sails were folded in neat bundles on the deck.
Upstairs in the big bedchamber is a ceiling of beams worked in bold roll mouldings; and there is an exquisite little parlour, lined with linen fold panels, with a breastsummer carved with strange animals. Medieval People
The nightmare shutdown scenario, still a few weeks away, would involve Congress failing to raise the national debt ceiling and possibly an unprecedented government debt default.
The cracks in the ceiling have to be plastered over before you can start painting.
The inherited interior – also previously an office – was not particularly grand, but any standout details were to be retained (such as marble mosaic floor tiles in the entrance area, a number of marble-inlaid fireplaces and highly detailed ceiling cornicing). Manchester Square Interior by SHH
For a few minutes they lay side by side in companionable silence staring up at the shadows on the ceiling. FALLEN WOMEN
The interior has heaps of rustic charm, with beamed ceilings, stone fireplaces and wood floors. Times, Sunday Times
The foyer felt a little cramped with quite low ceilings in areas. Times, Sunday Times
The combination of frontlight from the ceiling Cove and cross light from the ends of the Second Pipe makes a good, all purpose general wash.
Cabinets filled the corners and the ceiling was at a slant, it was obvious to the oblivious that this room was underneath a staircase.
The bedroom is wallpapered, both on walls and ceiling, with a delicate tiny pink flower motif on a white background.
A chilly wind penetrates the walls of the shelter and rain drips through a hole in the ceiling.
The walls and ceiling were of oiled and panelled redwood. THE STORY OF JEES UCK
Batts are made to fit between the studs in your walls or between the joists of your ceilings or floors.
We asked our builder to estimate for the repair of the ceiling.
Partitions, false ceilings, lighting, heating and ventilation ductwork, computer systems, telecommunications, and security apparatus are vulnerable.
From the low-beamed ceiling he unlashed a hammock and tied it to a truss by the fireplace wall.
The unnamed member of staff slipped as they took down tinsel and baubles from the ceiling of a classroom last year. The Sun
We've stripped wallpaper, painted, put up skirting boards, hung blinds, panelled ceilings and clad walls.
The room had roughly plastered walls and a low ceiling supported on enormous joists trimmed out of whole trees.
They were splashed with green, blue, orange, yellow, red, and purple all over, as well as my ceiling.
It has stained glass windows and high ceilings. Times, Sunday Times
Then I install the exhaust fan in its hole, switch it on, and apply the top coat of semigloss to the walls (dove) and ceiling (eggshell). TROPIC OF NIGHT
From somewhere above% the ceiling came the sound of an extractor fan. THE INNOCENT
A very powerful naked light bulb hung from the office ceiling.
His work table, under the low, wooden-beamed ceiling, carries no new piece in progress.
Near the exit, the ceiling started crumbling and falling on top of the room, much to their horror.

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