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

Ms. Zambello’s production, adapted from the one at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2016, has Puritan costumes, gray clapboard walls, and simple furnishings that depict dwellings, a courtroom and a jail.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

It’s a hip part of Brooklyn, where the centuries-old clapboard houses are interspersed with glassy boxes of recent vintage.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 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

I couldn’t stop thinking about the clapboard walls, the lack of windows.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros