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At a job in Potomac, Wersick told detectives, he tried to reach for a rafter in an attic but slipped, falling through the ceiling into the main bedroom.

Every time I go out on the floor, with that name up in the rafters, you have nothing else to do except go out there and compete and play your tail off.

Just having that honor and that privilege to play under that jersey up there in the rafters, it’s special.

It was a special game because Hardaway was playing in the arena where his father’s jersey hangs from the rafters — the No.

He signed a $170 million extension in July 2017 and declared he wanted his jersey hanging in the rafters one day.

When she has an emotion, it just explodes out of her like one of those rafter-shaking high notes.

Mule strung the two women, with their consent and help, from a rafter with strategically placed soft ropes.

A man had come to stand beside it, his body screening the light of one of the lamps that hung from a rafter of the ceiling.

As one end was made fast to a rafter, it hung dangling from the window.

He stalked to a rafter, ran one huge finger along it, discovered a tiny speck of dust and showed it to Franz.

The nest of June 28th was attached to a rafter of the front verandah of a bungalow at Lahore.

With this meeting we leave that Oxford before the Conquest, of which possibly not one stone, or one rafter, remains.

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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rafter, such as: axle, balk, beam, bolster, boom, and brace.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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