9 sentences with 'ceiling'

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• « The spider climbed up the wall. It crawled up to reach the ceiling lamp in my room. »

• « Propel the foot toward the ceiling until the thigh is parallel to the floor. »

• « The oven is ready when its ceiling, which is vaulted and made of brick, turns white, at between 450 and 480° C. »

• « Michelangelo Buonarroti created numerous works, including the statue of David and the ceiling paintings in the Sistine Chapel. »

• « Make sure vending machines at school and recreation centres your children attend are bolted to a wall, ceiling or floor. And warn your children never to try to shake them. »

• « Julius II paid Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and many of the other famous works of Renaissance artists adorn the walls and facades of Vatican buildings. »

• « Steve once found the body of a dead diver stuck in a crevice in the ceiling of a cavern, with living flesh where his fingernails had been, from his attempts to claw his way through the limestone. »

• « The result was that elite Indians too often came up against a 'glass ceiling' in the British Raj, able to rise to positions of importance but without real leadership. In turn, resentful elite Indians became the first Indian nationalists, organising what later became the Indian independence movement. »

• « In Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, one can see how the walls and ceiling tiles seem to lean towards a point on the horizon behind Jesus (in the centre). That imaginary point - the 'vanishing point' - was one of the major artistic advances associated with linear perspective, pioneered by Brunelleschi. »

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