The hurricane left hundreds of house roofless. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : roofless refugees. From Dictionary.com.
It recalled roofless heavens and boundless horizons. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
The vehicle — a kind of roofless omnibus — started with. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
Ionian cadences floated out from the roofless Odeum. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Bildad, with his roofless pack, sent up a doleful sound. From Wordnik.com. [Rippling Rhymes] Reference
Our only possible mess was a roofless gun-pit not far from a road. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Many a house stood roofless and in a state of threatened collapse. From Wordnik.com. [After Long Years and Other Stories] Reference
The prevalence of abandoned and roofless houses is also noticeable. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
St. Andrews a roofless ruin; Iona as yet open to the Atlantic winds?. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
Sunshine pours down between the tarpaulins covering the roofless ruin. From Wordnik.com. [To Rise From The Ashes] Reference
It was spared by the French, and occupied till 1807, but is now roofless. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
A big pine stood just outside the door and cast its shade over the roofless veranda. From Wordnik.com. [Buffalo Roost] Reference
These temples are thus roofless and are sculptured externally in the form of pagodas. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference
We then visited the now roofless ruins of the Abbey or Chapel Royal adjoining the Palace. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
The Grande Coulée is like an immense roofless ruin, extending north and south for fifty miles. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
Houses, roofless or otherwise, had to be subdivided into safe, doubtful, or certain to 'go up.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
Shann stepped back, eyeing the distance to the top of the partition between the roofless rooms. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
A typical Elizabethan play-house, like the Globe or the Blackfriars, stood roofless in the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
Lacking concrete, he'd constructed a roofless stone hut abutting the barn to serve as his manure shed. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Man's Lantern] Reference
So the tired crews turned into the roofless houses which had been prepared for them, and slept until dusk. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Tank] Reference
It is placed in a roofless corn-crib, on a bed of hay, with food before it; and Fabens works briskly for half. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
Survivors who escaped the horrors of a flood and fire stricken city at night were huddled roofless in an arctic storm. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
The room may have been roofless, but the same effect might have been produced by recent Navaho repairs and alterations. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference
I turned and looked at the roofless, crumbling walls, then at the coast where jeweled surf tumbled, stained with crimson. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
He was content to be left alone in the unusual circular, but roofless, room of the structure to which they had brought him. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Parts of the storm area look like a war zone, with emptied housing projects, roofless homes and boarded-up shopping centers. From Wordnik.com. [The Trauma After The Storm] Reference
Still holding the bowl close to his chest, Shann looked up over the roofless walls at the star map on the roof of the cavern. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
The open sky is all very well, but it might come on to rain, and then the roofless caravanserai would not be very comfortable. From Wordnik.com. [A Mating in the Wilds] Reference
When I visited Kabul in 2003, it looked like a war zone, a grim landscape of jagged debris, flattened buildings and roofless walls. From Wordnik.com. [Don’t Give Up on Afghanistan] Reference
Many of the cliff outlooks, being occupied only during the farming season and being also fairly well sheltered, were probably roofless. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference
At the park's further end there was a bench, inside a sort of roofless summerhouse, where on warm days the fountain played in a rainbow. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
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