What is "ceilings"

Usage examples of "ceilings".

Conversations were quiet and thoughtful, murmurs really, in a large room, its high ceilings molded with ivy leaves intricately woven and forming an enormous circle around a giant chandelier.

Not the original tin, but it looked just like the old pressed-tin ceilings from the era.

Chandeliers hung from high ceilings, although some of the bulbs were out.

A well-worn path took them along a branching tube, past two shafts that plunged into darkness, three stone pillars with rubble heaped to one side, and four branches forking off the main corridor whose ceilings curved so low he could never have hoped to squeeze through them.

I smelled their burning hair and their cooking flesh, dodged falling ceilings and other debris .

And on those occasions when I killed their kind, I usually killed swiftly, giving them no opportunity to escape across the walls and ceilings beyond my reach.

Even the goblins, who were capable of walking on walls and ceilings, would find it difficult to scramble up the smooth metal surfaces of a vertical duct without this sort of assistance.

If portions of tunnel ceilings and walls were still falling back where we had come from, they were small failures that did not produce enough noise to reach us.

He was a complete surprise and terribly premature, and withered, and he spent the next many weeks waggling his withered and contractured arms up at the Pyrex ceilings of incubators, being fed by tubes and monitored by wires and cupped in sterile palms, his head cradled by a thumb.

I tended to imagine the Moms staring expressionlessly at ceilings throughout.

Richard walked on into the bowels of the building, past chained fire exits and beneath seeping ceilings, until the penultimate door, with a soft flap, like an internal valve, seemed to admit him and exclude all else, and there was the marked entranceGENTSat the bottom of the bending steps .