- present participle of roof.
roofing
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Known asbestos items in the Palace of Westminster and wider parliamentary estate, such as insulation, roofing, floor tiles and ropes, now number more than 1,650 - an increase of 500 since 2021.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Burns, a 35-year-old pastor and roofing salesman in LaGrange, Ga., paid a Georgia lawyer a $2,500 retainer when his marriage came apart last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Yocheved Ruttenberg grew up in Baltimore, went by “Kim,” and was selling roofing door-to-door in Texas when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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
The whole of it was eventually picked clean in the way a forest tree gets gleaned by leaf-cutter ants: nuts, bolts, and anything that might serve for roofing material trailed off into the jungle.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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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
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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
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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
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Maybe you've overlooked the modern spread of respectability and corrugated roofings.
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
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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