How to Use through the roof in a Sentence
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When fire crews arrived on scene, the fire had consumed multiple rooms and had burst through the roof of one of the three hotel buildings.
—Bryce Buyakie, USA Today, 2 July 2026
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Videos of the response show crews dousing the building with water as flames leap through the roof of the market, sending black plumes of smoke into the air.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
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Of course, some of the rocks were found to have some fiberglass and even carpet remnants on them after crashing through the roof of a house, Jenniskens said.
—Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 15 July 2026
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Fire officials said one home along Palmer Drive was significantly damaged by the flames, with fire shooting through the roof at one point.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
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Those capital expenditures have sent memory chipmakers’ profits through the roof.
—Bailey Lipschultz, Fortune, 5 July 2026
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The price of microchips – particularly memory and storage processors – has surged in recent months as demand for those crucial datacenter components have blown through the roof.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
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