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
So I went and took my place behind the camera, and then Sahil did his clapboard thing and yelled, “Action!” before picking his way back to me silently, out of view of the camera.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
