as in housed
to provide with living quarters or shelter
fed and roofed the emergency volunteers for a week
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Recent Examples of roofed
Luostarinen got around Lohrei and roofed it past Swayman.
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Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Ten seconds after Florida defenseman Gustav Forsling got in front of a Luke Hughes attempt from the right circle, Jack Hughes took a feed from Jesper Bratt and roofed a snap shot from the bottom of the left circle short side under the crossbar.
—Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Lofoten brings red-roofed rorbuer cabins, sea eagles and jagged peaks that look hand-drawn.
—Jill Schildhouse, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Our friend needs her chicken coop (really a greenhouse frame) sided and roofed for the coming cold.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 11 Oct. 2024
That included building a 1200-seat roofed amphitheater, a 600-seat chamber music hall, a luxury hotel for guests, and a smaller hotel, with practice rooms, for the youth orchestra.
—Fredric Dannen, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Ten seconds after Florida defenseman Gustav Forsling got in front of a Luke Hughes attempt from the right circle, Jack Hughes took a feed from Jesper Bratt and roofed a snap shot from the bottom of the left circle short side under the crossbar.
—Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Lofoten brings red-roofed rorbuer cabins, sea eagles and jagged peaks that look hand-drawn.
—Jill Schildhouse, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Our friend needs her chicken coop (really a greenhouse frame) sided and roofed for the coming cold.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 11 Oct. 2024
That included building a 1200-seat roofed amphitheater, a 600-seat chamber music hall, a luxury hotel for guests, and a smaller hotel, with practice rooms, for the youth orchestra.
—Fredric Dannen, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for roofed
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Late last year, the city officials moved forward with their plan to sell the Bell Mobile and Florence Village Mobile Home Parks, which housed about 300 families.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2026
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It’s housed inside its own twist-bottom tube and contains an internal brush to give you an effortless, mess-free method of application.—
Michelle Baricevic,
InStyle,
22 Jan. 2026
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During November, Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport accommodated about 704,300 passengers, the travel hub reported.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2026
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This shows a circular, counter-clockwise navigation of the sea that accommodated winds and currents.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Bieber will watch Smith deliver that message from backstage, private and sheltered from view.—
Sam Kestenbaum,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2026
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As reports flooded in, hundreds of students sheltered in place across campus buildings, including Solomon Hall, where police said that roughly 150 to 300 people were barricaded inside.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
31 Dec. 2025
Verb
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That’s due to the toy’s silicone strings' ability to reach the back of the throat and become lodged.—
Anna Halkidis,
Parents,
22 Jan. 2026
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The organization has lodged several complaints with the FCC about alleged media bias.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Roofed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roofed. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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