CEILING in a Sentence
Learn CEILING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
126 example sentences for CEILING, such as:
1. Paris is the ceiling of the human race.
2. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars.
3. The ceiling fan depends from the ceiling.
4. They stared up at the hole in the ceiling.
5. A lamp was suspended from the ceiling above us.
2. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars.
3. The ceiling fan depends from the ceiling.
4. They stared up at the hole in the ceiling.
5. A lamp was suspended from the ceiling above us.
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Meanings and Examples of CEILING
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ceiling
n. maximum altitude at which a plane can fly (under specified conditions)
n. (meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds
Classic Sentence: (104 in 7 pages)
1 Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace.
2 In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and to laugh at it until the ceiling shook.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
3 A wan ray of the December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the ceiling in long threads of light and shade.
4 Paris is the ceiling of the human race.
5 Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper.
6 All at once he sprang up; he had just perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which resulted from the space between three lathes.
7 At this absolute assertion, the Jondrette woman raised her large, red, blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE
8 A shot into the ceiling, the air, no matter where.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
9 Marius decided that in a few seconds more the moment for intervention would arrive, and he raised his right hand towards the ceiling, in the direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol.
10 There was a hole in the ceiling of his cage, and, above it, another hole in the roof.
11 This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and for floor ten inches of mud.
12 A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars.
13 Nicolette used up a sheet "as big as the ceiling," as she put it, for lint.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
14 They thought they heard voices carolling in the infinite; they had God in their hearts; destiny appeared to them like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a rising sun.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
15 Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to the very ceiling.
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 A lamp was suspended from the ceiling above us.
2 The floor was level, but the ceiling sloped toward his head.
3 There were buckets to catch the drips from the ceiling.
4 In her current role she broke through the glass ceiling as the first woman to reach senior management level in the company.
5 The ceiling fan depends from the ceiling.
6 In the first moments of waking, he looks up in puzzlement at the aged ceiling fan revolving above his bed.
7 Showered, under the ceiling fan in his room at the Coligny, Converse woke to the telephone.
8 They stared up at the hole in the ceiling.
9 Mind you don't bump your head on the low ceiling.
10 I got a crick in my neck from painting the ceiling.
11 The cracks in the ceiling have to be plastered over before you can start painting.
12 We tied balloons and streamers to the ceiling ready for the party.
13 It is a variable topping-up resource to meet the expenditure ceiling.
14 Where traditional own resources are inadequate to meet the new expenditure ceiling, the fourth resource comes into operation.
15 The roof support structure had collapsed and the entire weight was bearing down on the ceiling.