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UK
/ɹˈuːfləs/
]
ADJECTIVE
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not having a roof
the hurricane left hundreds of house roofless -
physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security
made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another
How To Use roofless In A Sentence
- When I was last in Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap. The Life of John Milton
- The countryside of Pisa had been ravaged by aerial bombardments and artillery barrages, leaving only a wilderness of roofless houses and smoking craters.
- There's something about winter and snow that eliminates sound, and in that immense and roofless vacancy you sense another presence, something that doesn't move.
- This route is punctuated by farms with ace brick barns; we passed more, some roofless, some heading that way, and joined the River Seven to take its low floodbank.
- With a mobile roof, safety is worth a mention, because there's still the perception that a roofless car doesn't quite have the rigidity, or crash-resistance, of a hardtop.
- There's also little evidence of wobbling in the body, which can be a signature for roofless versions of normally hard-topped coupes, which is as much a compliment to the suspension as to the stiffness of the car as a whole. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
- Then there is the window, opening right down to the floor, from which, if it please you, you may study the activity of the roofless ant-hill beneath, the restless febrility of West End London. The Sins of Séverac Bablon
- The walls remain, a purposeful reminder of the waste of war, and the roofless interior become a sort of peace park for contemplation.
- His house is roofless and a small shanty next to it serves as a shelter.
- These are the circular shaped, hypaethral or roofless structures dedicated to the sixty-four yoginis belonging to the Tantric order.