to the roof
Example Sentences
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"It's like searching for a needle in 50,000 football stadiums filled to the roof with hay. The machine finds the needle in an hour," explains Annabel Rolofs from the University of Bonn.
From Science Daily • May 14, 2026
"So we went up to the roof before the fire even started."
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
Márquez ran to the roof of her house, where the roar of planes overhead filled the night sky.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026
The empty car, which had a "Happy Chanukah" sign fixed to the roof, was scorched by the fire while parked in a house driveway, images on national broadcaster ABC television showed.
From Barron's • Dec. 25, 2025
His tongue was dry and stuck to the roof of his mouth, as if he’d licked an entire jar of peanut butter.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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