hip roof

How to use hip roof in a sentence

• The long axis of the hip-roof crystal is often so shortened that it resembles the envelop crystal of calcium oxalate.

  A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Todd

• The hip roof of the building is crowned by a monitor top, which admits light into the art room below.

  The Bay State Monthly, Vol. II, No. 6, March, 1885 | Various

• One may surmise that there was a hip roof, with a chimney rising through each hip.

  The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia | C. Malcolm Watkins

• It was low, with a plain hip-roof covered with ancient red tiles, many of which were missing.

  The Pride of Palomar | Peter B. Kyne

• I feel like I've been straddlin' a hip roof durin' an earthquake.

  Old Judge Priest | Irvin S. Cobb