roofless
AmericanEtymology
Origin of roofless
Example Sentences
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Roofless foam-core models with miniature versions of the artwork and lighting are then laid out in advance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2015
Indeed there were: some 320 towns in Byelorussia alone bore names like Roofless, Slobsville and Dirt; Abscess, Deviltry and Grief.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Roofless towers appeared and disappeared, thrusting blindly upward.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Hut and castle, hall and cottage, Roofless, crumbling to the ground, Mighty Heaven, a glad Avenger Thy eternal Justice found.
From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King
Palaces and Roofless wide-flighted colonnaded temples, The uncemented walls piled-plumb with blocks Squared, polished, fitted with daemonic patience.
From Miscellany of Poetry 1919 by Seymour, W. Kean
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