How to Use ceiling in a Sentence

ceiling

noun

• The house has low ceilings.
• The car comes with a large video screen that folds down from the ceiling.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
• Between the low ceiling and the hard floors, the Tombs traps noise.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
• Use the paint roller to fill in the remainder of the ceiling.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
• More:Who voted against the debt ceiling bill in the House?
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023
• Much of the ceiling was exposed, the rest draping along the right side of the store.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022
• There is room to stand up, and the center ceiling is flat and slopes to the wall.
  — Mark Philben, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Jan. 2023
• And a lot of the new space will be clear span and have higher ceiling heights.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023
• Press it toward the ceiling, then return it to the floor.
  — Men's Health, 7 July 2023
• The Senate is slated to vote on the debt ceiling deal this week.
  — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
• Victorian homes were dressed to the nines, from floors to walls and all the way to the ceiling.
  — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Jan. 2024
• The best things this Kingston home has to offer aren’t the 13-feet-high ceilings or its view of the town green.
  — Cathy Ching, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• Below the hole in the ceiling were carts and two-wheeled dollies.
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 31 July 2024
• Now, fans are asking - what is the ceiling for this team?
  — Graham Ruthven, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• This figure should be a floor to build on, not a ceiling to reach.
  — Jens Stoltenberg, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2023
• In the video, an alarm sounds as objects appear to fall from the ceiling.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• Now the work fills two walls, from floor to ceiling, on a theater-size screen.
  — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 18 Aug. 2022
• Sweat breaks out across her skin as the ceiling seems to descend.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
• Hang your ghosts with fishing line from the porch ceiling.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2023
• Get them off the floor and out of your way by hanging bike hooks from your ceiling.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 4 Jan. 2023
• Drops of water and brown gunk fall from the ceiling, and a thick liquid sits on the bottom of the curved floor.
  — Ricky Carioti, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• The gaunt stillness of the high-ceiling space, that remains pretty much the same.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2022
• The floor and the ceiling are both fair game for decorating.
  — Jenny Comita, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
• Anything that feels like a ceiling or a cap, and that starts to feel daunting.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2023
• The debt ceiling is going to be the most important of these fights.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2023
• The floor and the ceiling’s palette is neutral and in contrast with the metallic gray.
  — Andrea Onate, WWD, 17 Sep. 2024
• On the wall is an almost floor to ceiling screen showing NBA footage.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Feb. 2024
• If somebody floats from your ceiling, get out of that house.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 17 Nov. 2022
• But the lights from the ceiling are shining back, highlighting the smudges on the mirror.
  — Hank Sanders, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
• The ceilings on the old apartments were caving in and some even had bullet holes in the windows.
  — Celia Fernandez,tasia Jensen, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2025

Last Updated: 21 Mar 2025