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roofing

[roo-fing, roof-ing] / ˈru fɪŋ, ˈrʊf ɪŋ /


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In the year to August the Citizens Advice Consumer Service received 9,000 complaints about roofing work, including problems with construction, repairs and weatherproofing.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Inside, pieces of metal roofing, concrete and broken glass litter the floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The Kennedy Center closed its doors indefinitely on Sept. 15 after an inspection found acute public safety concerns, among them roofing issues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

But the report also identified improperly roofing defects, low water pressure and what inspectors described as "exceptionally poor" installation of the gas meter cabinet and gas pipe.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Marsha and Glen had found construction work and roofing jobs at the start of the summer, but now it would be weeks before rebuilding jobs would be available.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

The Germans had repaired bomb damage with their usual nimbleness, had covered vital pipelines and machinery with massive roofings of concrete.

From Time Magazine Archive

The emphasis in U. S. industry has shifted from production to distribution, and a distribution expert should be able to function with equal facility whether he is distributing Montgomery Ward merchandise or Johns-Manville roofings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Up 15% were sales of big makers of asphalt roofing, asbestos roofings and sidings, cement, gypsum products, insulating lines, other building materials.

From Time Magazine Archive

Everything useful or portable, everything that spoke of man's occupation, everything that suggested life and comfort—the porcelain tiles, woodwork, window-panes, roofings, mosaic or marble floors, leaden pipes—all this had been carried away long ago.

From South Wind by Norman Douglas

Shelters were built, with panellings and roofings of corrugated iron.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Louis Creswicke


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