housetop

Example Sentences

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Behind her, the townsfolk tussle and bicker; one man shares a bone with a dog; housetops collapse into the street.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

But in London last week a butler was shrilling secrets from the housetops.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cows jumped over housetops, and fiddlers played in the sky.

From Time Magazine Archive

Washington kept shouting from the housetops that a Berlin crisis was imminent; Adenauer did not agree, and did not see what Washington wanted him to do about it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Above the black line of housetops the sky was warm crimson.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers