ceiling

Example Sentences

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They are in a building with wooden ceiling beams, in an area that appears to be partitioned off with black curtains, with at least one security agent on the perimeter.

From Barron's

Iona is perched on a table by a windowsill, stapling albums to the ceiling as decor to liven up the record store she runs — not that the place needs much livening-up, considering Iona’s look.

From Salon

Because the client isn’t worried about hitting the estate-tax exemption ceiling, he used an in-kind distribution, bringing the Apple stock back to his estate and put in $1 million of another asset.

From Barron's

Leah told of beds lifted, “entirely from the floor, almost to the ceiling.”

From Literature

They point to past experience of pay deals that break through the ceiling imposed by finance secretaries leading to rapid and sometimes painful revised budgets during the financial year.

From BBC