clapboard

Example Sentences

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The goal had been to rehabilitate the original clapboarded structure but it was too far gone, with blackberry bushes and asbestos embedded in the rickety, lead-painted walls.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2022

“Snake Man,” the Navajo nicknamed this former resident of a clapboarded 1850s house in Tottenville.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2010

At times the logs are clapboarded without, and are all lathed and plastered within.

From Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska by Stoddard, Charles Warren

All the way stations in small places are wooden houses built American fashion, either clapboarded or upright boards battened where they meet.

From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon

There was a long female night-shirt, clapboarded up in front with trimming and starch, and buttoned from Genesis to Revelations.

From Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)