to the roof

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Last week, Letterman visited Colbert’s show, where both men took to the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater and hurled CBS property off the ledge.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Those plans included improvements to the roof, replacement lanterns and internal works to rooms including the south anteroom and dining areas.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

"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

In Nyakach, in the west, children walked through knee-high water and residents scooped water from inundated houses -- though some were submerged up to the roof.

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026

And the last stage was the clerestory, which consisted of sixty-foot windows that reached right up to the roof.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay