Uppermost horizontal line of a gabled roof and other roof types.
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Examples for "ridge"
Examples for "ridge"
1Four miles to the west the ridge terminated in a low point.
2The Mid-Cayman spreading centre is an ultraslow-spreading ridge in the Caribbean Sea.
3The blue-ridge outline was as sharp and clear as a paper cutout.
4A a certain point I could see sun on the summit ridge.
5Its east ridge, route of the first ascent, is long and dangerous.
1The sun glinted on the layer of ice covering the roof ridge.
2She sat on the roof ridge, chin in hands.
3I was as high as its roof ridge and had to stoop low to get through the door-hole.
4A row of strange objects seemed to be placed upon the roof ridge, and along the walls of the kraals.
5She stood there some moments until another star appeared higher up against the roof ridge, the star she was looking for.
6Now flat on his face the boy ventured to peep over the roof ridge down into the village street at no great distance below.
7Their roofs are steep and curved, with x-shaped cross pieces above their gables and log-like beams laid perpendicularly across their roof ridges.
8From this door, a catwalk of steel and wood led to her platform, a deck on a steel truss that spanned two roof ridges.
9There were figures on the beach, moving dark dots on the white semicircle bounded by the stockades, backed by roof ridges above the palm groves.
Translations for roof ridge