What is "unroof"

Usage examples of "unroof".

Most of the upper level was unroofed, or covered only by tents and awnings, but in a few places the upper tier, too, was partially enclosed by more substantial structures.

Along the streets there were heaps of calcined material of unroofed walls of houses--a proof that Pougatcheff had been there.

Only when Edge passed the southern end of the bridge—the crowds strolling onto and off it had stopped in surprise—could he look along its length and see that, though the Ponte Vecchio was crammed with awninged shops and stalls on both sides, it was indeed a passage from one bank of the Arno to the other, unroofed and open to the sky the whole way.

He stood there, downloading hours of coffee into it, while high over his unroofed head the cascade-shaped eucalypti splashed and glittered in the breeze.

And then he came to an unroofed corridor where there were other tracks, those of a man.

The buildings, all unroofed by time and the endless progression of the seasons, had a strange, alien quality about them.

It had not been occupied for well over three thousand years, and the thatching and the doors and windowframes had long since surrendered to the elements, leaving the shell of the house standing, bramble-filled and unroofed to the sky.

Many of them stood unroofed to the sky, their gaping, soot‑blackened windows staring out at the rubble‑choked streets.

But at the last the gates of Utumno were broken and the halls unroofed, and Melkor took refuge in the uttermost pit.

But in the midst of the land was a mountain tall and steep, and it was named the Meneltarma, the Pillar of Heaven, and upon it was a high place that was hallowed to Eru Ilúvatar, and it was open and unroofed, and no other temple or fane was there in the land of the Númenóreans.

The aspect of the tumbling walls and unroofed rooms roused him at last completely from his absorption.

By the time I got to the end of the unroofed corridor and made the turn, he was scooting along toward the nearest set of big steep stone stairs leading down to the lower courtyard level, to the same level as the ball court a hundred yards away.

It was a perfect building two hundred and fifty years ago, when a shell dropped into the Venetian magazine stored here, and the explosion which followed wrecked and unroofed it.

Some of the trucks were old, with unroofed cabs, no windshields, steering wheels huge and perfectly upright.

It was unroofed, and some of the walls had fallen, but some of the immense arches yet retained their upright position.