clapboard

Example Sentences

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New cedar clapboards to replace the vinyl siding — that will have to wait until Phase 2, along with energy efficient windows matching the original style.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2022

Building contractors brought in shiploads of imported materials—prefabricated structures, steel columns, clapboards, concrete blocks, iron pillars and galvanized iron sheets—as well as hundreds of laborers from elsewhere.

From Scientific American • Mar. 25, 2020

The biggest hurdle technically was the absence of one crucial element of filmmaking: the clapboards used at the start and end of scenes that allow filmmakers to synchronize the visuals with the audio.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2018

Next to a cafe, on the clapboards covering what 60 years earlier was one of the country’s most prominent instrument stores, an artist has painted a grim joke: “Free Coffee With Purchase of Wurlitzer Bldg.”

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2014

It looked queer among the tenements with its tiny small-paned windows, clapboards and steep slanting roof.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith