roofless
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Origin of roofless
Example Sentences
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“We have a duty to see to it that no one starves, that no one goes roofless and cold,” The Times wrote in an editorial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
Footage of the scene posted on social media shows people standing on top of the roofless bus near the bridge, which is marked for vehicles below a certain height.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
After five consecutive days with rain delays, play on the other roofless courts was scheduled to get underway at around 12:30 p.m. local time.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
"Most of all we want a roof, a roof and assistance," said Jose Luis Martinez, speaking in the skeletal wreckage of his roofless dwelling in Acapulco's impoverished Puesta del Sol neighborhood.
From Reuters ● Nov. 1, 2023
Presently one flitted up from some roofless ruin of the town like a vast black bat, thin-winged and spiny-backed, and circling into the north wind came flying towards Ged.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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