clapboard
Example Sentences
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During the first movie, Frankel says, Blunt came in on the days she wasn’t working to watch her co-stars and even operate the clapboard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
These three-family clapboard sugar cubes, thrown up by the tens of thousands around the turn of the 20th century across all New England’s cities, are the backbone of Greater Boston’s working-class housing stock.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2025
It emerged long enough for a photo shoot at their residence, then was whisked back to Rye’s white clapboard town hall and securely stashed in a filing cabinet.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
Tidy clapboard homes painted blue and grey looked abandoned, the windows darkened and doors latched.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2023
We jump out of the truck bed and line up, then walk to the schoolhouse, a small clapboard building with a bell in front.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
