ceiling _noun

1-) the top horizontal surface inside a room

ADJECTIVES & NOUNS

high, low 
・The rooms have low ceilings and you need to be careful not to bang your head.
・The house has beautiful high ceilings.

kitchen, bedroom, etc.
・She looked up at the bedroom ceiling.

painted
・The house is especially notable for its 17th-century painted ceilings.

sloping
・On the top floor the bedrooms have sloping ceilings.

vaulted
・The church has huge vaulted ceilings.

CEILING + NOUN
fan
・He stared at the ceiling fan turning above his bed.

light
・The corridor had small ceiling lights all along it.

VERBS

hang from
・The lamp hung from the ceiling.

PREPOSITIONS

on 
・There was an enormous spider on the ceiling.

PHRASES

from floor to ceiling
・The bookcases covered the walls from floor to ceiling.

2-) an official upper limit

VERBS

put, set, impose (on) 
・The government set a ceiling on the number of people who could come into the country to work.

raise, increase (on) 
・Republicans in Congress have been refusing to raise the ceiling on the national debt.

NOUNS 

price
・The minister decided to lift price ceilings on bread, milk, and other basic foods.

spending, expenditure 
・The government has promised to stick to its spending ceiling.

debt
・The US Congress must pass legislation to raise the debt ceiling.

PHRASES

hit the ceiling
・Prices in the shops have hit the ceiling over the last few weeks.