clapboard
Example Sentences
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A historic church dons a "Go Knicks!" banner, while bars' clapboard signs advertise the game.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
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
Momentary pictures emerge from the crackling cloud and then sink back — a girl walking, a simple clapboard building, a hand holding a teacup, a car careening over a steep embankment and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2024
The house was clapboard, which was strange in this desert country, with faded white paint and a small second story.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
