Meanings of roofless houses in English

There were roofless houses, and the black patches of burned buildings.

In a vast space bordered by roofless houses, a new group was hastily organized.

The prevalence of abandoned and roofless houses is also noticeable.

The black trail of the incendiaries showed in the roofless houses, in the burnt arcades.

The moonlight made strange shadows in the roofless houses.

From the deck of the lighter the men can see the roofless houses, the burned-out houses.

A number of fortifications, which, however, look more like roofless houses than anything else, protect the stream.

The beams of roofless houses became impromptu drying racks for clothes as men balanced on bamboo poles lashing roofs back together.

Now, nothing remained but a vast collection of roofless houses, with blackened, shattered walls, and shapeless heaps of stones and rubbish.

In the rain the roofless houses, shattered windows, and broken carvings that littered the street presented a picture of melancholy and useless desolation.