thatch

Example Sentences

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Does your house have a concrete roof or a thatched one?

From BBC

He had a messy thatch of brown hair and an Adam’s apple sharp as a teenager’s, but he was at least ten years older than me.

From Literature

A group of young people sheltered under a thatched hut by the side of the road, absorbed in a game of poker.

From Barron's

Nothing would be left but dust, and chunks of limestone, and bits of thatch settling on the floor.

From Literature

I walked through a small village where chickens and gnomes were scattered among little houses with thatched roofs and smoking chimneys.

From Literature