gable roof

Example Sentences

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But lately Ms. Stern has taken to shooting gable roofs, gravestones, treetops, and fish-clutching birds of prey in a washed-out and gentle black and white that makes me think of charcoal rubbings.

From New York Times

Even though Porter & Lockie was a pioneer of art deco in Washington, the firm designed the house as a traditional Tudor, with steeply pitched gable roofs, elaborate chimneys and decorative half-timbering.

From Washington Post

The occasional low tower of a Norman church, or peaked gable roof of a seventeenth-century farmhouse, poked out from behind huddled green copses, and wildflowers were growing in the gravel between the train tracks.

From The New Yorker

It was a large private trash collection truck that showed up at the red brick building with the gable roof in the 1300 block of Rhode Island Avenue NE, in the Brentwood neighborhood.

From Washington Post

Architectural features would include a gable roof atop two stories and a wraparound porch.

From Washington Times