How To Use Roofless In A Sentence
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We emerged from the kitchen garden and walked around a roofless octagonal dovecote and into an artificial glade.
TOY SHOP
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It recalled roofless heavens and boundless horizons.
The Boat of a Million Years
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Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
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Still remaining are the constant reminders of the devastation left behind; trees left in branchless tangles, roofless shambles of hand-laid stone foundations of once century-old structures, empty weed-filled lots, the constant traffic and beeping of backhoes, and the bare slab foundations of what were once homes but now have only haunting stairways leading down to what were once basements that, luckily, saved the lives of many local residents.
Michael DeJong: Greensburg: An Eco 9/11
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In the reworking of the building, the new volumes provide shade and shelter in the otherwise roofless space.
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Any roofless car will flex in the bends and on oddly-cambered roads, and the 307 CC is no exception.
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Scarcely have we hauled our boat up on the sand, and deposited our provisions and water in the roofless house, when we hear a commotion in the river -- a swarm of fish called 'tailer' are making havoc among a
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899
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These intricately crafted log buildings, though now roofless, are still intact, though built over a century ago.
February 2009
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the hurricane left hundreds of house roofless
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Samover then listed buildings that are slowly deteriorating, including a 17th-century merchant's home that has been roofless for a year and a modernist masterpiece open to the skies.
First they toppled the Moscow mayor, now they're after his sculptor
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We emerged from the kitchen garden and walked around a roofless octagonal dovecote and into an artificial glade.
TOY SHOP
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Now, the cathedral which crowns the hill, roofless and ruinous, is only imposing from a distance, and a part of it is used for the storage of marine or lighthouse stores under our prosaic and irreverent rule.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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There was not even a respectable shade tree within twenty or thirty miles; in fact, the actual location of the nearest decent shade was a matter of vigorous debate in the offices — if you wanted to call a roofless barn and a couple of patched-up corrals offices — of the Hat Creek Cattle Company, half of which Augustus owned.
Lonesome Dove
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We emerged from the kitchen garden and walked around a roofless octagonal dovecote and into an artificial glade.
TOY SHOP
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The house was roofless, windowless and doorless.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ferns sprout from mossy lintels and trees reach for the sky from small, now-roofless rooms which were the living quarters of slaves.
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I drop my pack and lean against the roofless building and watch the laborers.
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It was so long since I'd been roofless; I was sorely tempted to turn round and go back to the house.
GALILEE
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It was a flash crowd, and soon our roofless concrete barn was packed with wet bodies, dancing under sheets of hard rain and the intermittent flashes of lightning.
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She looked fearfully on the almost roofless walls, green with damps, and on the gothic points of the windows, where the ivy and the briony had long supplied the place of glass, and ran mantling among the broken capitals of some columns, that had once supported the roof.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Many of the pastel-painted adobe shops and homes along the unpaved main street had bullet, mortar, or artillery shell holes and were roofless.
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By evening they came to the ruins of an ancient city and bivouacked within a building that, though roofless, otherwise remained stood intact.
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A rabbit hole on the hill surrounded by morning frost; a crow looking down into the roofless windmill tower; a rot hole in the trunk of an alder tree fallen into a field from the streamside; a muddy drain in the road.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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There was not even a respectable shade tree within twenty or thirty miles; in fact, the actual location of the nearest decent shade was a matter of vigorous debate in the offices—if you wanted to call a roofless barn and a couple of patched-up corrals offices—of the Hat Creek Cattle Company, half of which Augustus owned.
The Lonesome Dove Series
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His house is roofless and a small shanty next to it serves as a shelter.
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The countryside of Pisa had been ravaged by aerial bombardments and artillery barrages, leaving only a wilderness of roofless houses and smoking craters.
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There's something about winter and snow that eliminates sound, and in that immense and roofless vacancy you sense another presence, something that doesn't move.
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This route is punctuated by farms with ace brick barns; we passed more, some roofless, some heading that way, and joined the River Seven to take its low floodbank.
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With a mobile roof, safety is worth a mention, because there's still the perception that a roofless car doesn't quite have the rigidity, or crash-resistance, of a hardtop.
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There's also little evidence of wobbling in the body, which can be a signature for roofless versions of normally hard-topped coupes, which is as much a compliment to the suspension as to the stiffness of the car as a whole.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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Then there is the window, opening right down to the floor, from which, if it please you, you may study the activity of the roofless ant-hill beneath, the restless febrility of West End London.
The Sins of Séverac Bablon
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The walls remain, a purposeful reminder of the waste of war, and the roofless interior become a sort of peace park for contemplation.
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His house is roofless and a small shanty next to it serves as a shelter.
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These are the circular shaped, hypaethral or roofless structures dedicated to the sixty-four yoginis belonging to the Tantric order.
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For some years it was left a roofless ruin, and a building designed for the parish church was afterwards erected within the nave, roofed over at the level of the triforium, and used as a place of worship till 1875, when a new church built in excambion by the Earl of Lothian was opened for worship, and the abbey ruin can now be viewed "clear of that incubus upon its lovely proportions.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
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Possibly it’s something to do with response times for poetry generally being shorter than response times for fiction; possibly it’s just that the fiction was draftier than a roofless barn.
An Interview with Amal El-Mohtar
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When I was last in Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap.
The Life of John Milton
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Baptiste said the roofless building had been a haven for rats, snakes, centipedes and other vermin.
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There is still the unnerving scenery of headless trees, roofless homes, abandoned tankers and large looming landmine warnings.
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He could see, fading away into the blue distance, lines of open structures which he could only describe as roofless-and largely wall-less - buildings.
Tin
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The vehicle — a kind of roofless omnibus — started with
The Way Home
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According to Bugatti's communication chief, Georges Keller, the roofless targa option was the only one available because there was no other solution which could fit with the Veyron's safety cage.
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We have children waiting in the pouring rain, in a roofless hut, their eyes eagerly awaiting the arrival of their teacher to guide them into the new millennium.
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Raised above street level, a large, sloping concrete platform with a scalloped edge is covered with earth, vegetation and fragments of stone structures, including walls and a roofless cottage.
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These are the circular shaped, hypaethral or roofless structures dedicated to the sixty-four yoginis belonging to the Tantric order.
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He took a last look at the shaded green garden and left, whistling in an off key an untuneful air from a roofless farce comedy.
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He stands by a roofless tower, where "the howlet mourns in her dewy bower," and "sets the wild echoes flying," and adds to a perfect picture of the scene his famous vision of "Libertie.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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A tower loomed over the roofless mansion, and beyond it, the spire of the Church of Ireland could be seen.