ceiling

Example Sentences

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It shared photos on X that showed twisted metal beams hanging from the ceiling and debris covering the floor.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

IBM’s own guidance suggested that 10% growth is likely the ceiling through 2026, largely due to slowing demand for its core product, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

“Polarization has raised the floor and lowered the ceiling for approval ratings,” said Brandon Rottinghaus, a professor of political science at the University of Houston.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

The point of no return was 1915, when Duchamp, altogether rejecting art’s traditional role as aesthetic creation—metamorphosis—brought that snow shovel and hung it from his studio ceiling as “In Advance of the Broken Arm.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Indeed by Beje standards it was enormous; for the first few nights the ceiling seemed so far overhead that I could not sleep.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom