clapboard

How To Use clapboard In A Sentence

• Perhaps inspired by the elegant Georgian style houses he recalled from his boyhood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, he trimmed his two-story clapboarded house with quoins and a cornice with dentils.
• I wonder whether any of the clapboard houses I wander past is the house where it happened, where All killed herself.
• They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
• THE SUN'S SUNK behind the row of trees and clapboard cottages on the shore, past the reef and its traffic — fishermen and jetskiers heading back to houses and bars — past where the Connecticut River dumps its brackish load into Long Island Sound. Monkeytown prologue/chapter first
• A bracket included with every piece is designed to allow the artwork to hang level on walls made of stone, stucco, clapboard, siding and brick.
• In little villages it is often a white clapboard building with a hip roof and a bell tower.
• Within three days Reverend Thorn approached one of the most gracious villages ever to have developed in America: the tree-lined, white-clapboarded, well-gabled village of Walpole, near the Connecticut River in southwestern New Hampshire. Hawaii
• instead these clapboard houses made me think of the slave quarters of 19th century cotton plantations across America's southern states.
• Behind the clapboard doors he could hear the surge buffeting the boat against the rubber tyres that protected the surrounding boardwalk. COMPULSION
• And the Finns' log cabins, erected on barely cleared cutover lands, were covered with white clapboard siding as soon as finances permitted.