Example Sentences

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Very steep or dormered roofs boost construction costs.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023

Windows stretching to the ceiling along the north wall look out on the dormered Federal townhouses of King Street.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2017

The dormered property dates back to the 1780s and now hosts eight guest rooms, most with fireplaces and marble bathrooms, some with terraces.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2015

She had just about finished remodeling when, in 1961, a short circuit in an elevator shaft started a three-alarm blaze that sent flames licking 30 ft. above the dormered roof.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a red-brick Georgian Colonial, boxy but handsome in a quiet kind of way, two and a half stories high with dormered windows and a chimney on each end.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler