"Then jump off the roof, Maggie,jump off it. Now cats jump off roofs and they land uninjured.

VOA: special.2011.04.03

The twenty-two men rested until dark, listening to rain hit the roof of the farm house.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

This sculpture is on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

It is placed on top of the flagpole on the roof of One Times Square.

VOA: special.2010.12.31

Her eyes flew open. She could hear the steady rainfall on the roof top.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

But it was planted in containers on the roof of the White House.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

They can walk under and around the sculpture on the Roof Garden.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Water streams down the windows on the roof over every dog's room.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

But it's not on their housetop, or even outside. The Roof,as locals call it, is the Indiana Roof Ballroom.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

The Roof Ballroom hung on for 30 years before the owners gave up and shut the doors.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

The plastic tarp that serves as the roof of her house fills with water when it rains.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

"It's just corrugated metal from the roof and a few chimneys, and that's all that was left of our place when we went in,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

About a 150 people came - so many that some are sleeping on the roof.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

But the Roof Ballroom began a long, sad decline during World War Two, when it seemed that all the men in town were off fighting the war.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

So the Roof is busy again with wedding receptions and the like.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Tiny tables surrounded the Roof's huge parquet wooden floor.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Now,theoretically, only the speakers and deputy speakers of the two houses of parliament may use the lights officially, but there are still dozens of cars on the Moscow roads that continue to exploit the advantages of a blue light on the roof.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

And on six Sunday nights a year, ballroom dancers from as far away as St.Louis - two states away in Missouri - once again head to downtown Indianapolis to swing to the music of big bands and rekindle memories of long-ago dances and romances at the Roof.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

But the City of Indianapolis came to the rescue. It bought the theater building in the 1980s and leased the Roof Ballroom to a developer, who not only fixed it up but installed what it called a scene machine to add more moody sky effects like synthetic snowfall.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

They had plenty of food and a good roof over their heads and the river ran close to their door.

VOA: special.2009.02.28