clapboard

Example Sentences

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The screen door hangs open, bumps against the garbage bin, and the mailbox clings lopsided to the faded milky coffee–colored clapboard that wraps the house.

From Literature

The downtown flattened out to weedy lots strewn between plain brick and wooden clapboard buildings.

From Literature

I point to the house next door, a single-story clapboard home painted dark green.

From Literature

Crooked clapboard houses stood on either side of her, weak light glowing down from their windows, their roofs piled with snow.

From Literature

Dona Elliott, 59, owns this combination country store and saloon, built in 1929 of clapboard and shingles, uphill from the river and hard by a narrow woodland road.

From Los Angeles Times