noun
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material used to construct a roof
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the act of constructing a roof
Etymology
Origin of roofing
First recorded in 1400–50, roofing is from the late Middle English word rovyng. See roof, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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AFP visited the remote border zone and saw three buildings reduced to rubble, their scorched zinc roofing twisted among the debris.
From Barron's
All the other roofing contractors are going to be jelly.
The largest was unfinished and made from unplastered cement blocks with a tin roof, while two were just lean-to constructs of roofing sheets with nothing more, and the last an open, untidily thatched hut.
From Literature
“I do agree with them getting the people that deserve it, who may have criminal records and aren’t cooperating with the law,” said Gutierrez, who works for a roofing company and is of Mexican heritage.
Other meat-and-potatoes fixes—like roofing, electrical systems and plumbing—are also among the biggest expenses.
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