Example Sentences

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The reporter was probably assigned to the story because in 1933, Santa Anas topped 60 miles an hour, smashed boats, unroofed buildings, and relocated about 14 million tons of dust.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2021

Public art can sometimes feel ponderously corporate or impersonal, but the unroofed splendor of Pepper’s site-specific works can prompt unexpectedly potent encounters.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2019

It was treacherously cold and snowy in the unroofed 1964 Olympic Stadium … I was so cold, locals offered me a warm can of sweet coffee.

From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2015

St James's Park, Exeter You've got an unobstructed view from the upper storey windows of houses on St James Road behind the open unroofed terrace.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2011

More simpleton I!—to stand, like a thin-clad booby, in a hard shower, under an unroofed penthouse.

From The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts by Colman, George