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Among them are working drawings that prescribe the profile of every block of stone, each keyed to its exact place in the building, whether gable, tracery or buttress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

Rather than catching fire from direct contact with flames, many homes begin to burn due to embers that can fly miles, entering through eaves or gable vents.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2025

Todd Brunner buys this home, with three upstairs bedrooms and a steep, gable roof, in the spring of 2003.

From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2022

You can get motorized lifts with large articulating arms that allow you to safely paint that tall gable end on your home or reach a difficult sidewall above a steep roof.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

Everything was sort of violet and still, the sky green paling into gold beyond the gable of the house and a plume of smoke rising from the chimney without any wind.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

Inspired by cinema setpieces and centuries-old European cottages, architects designed playful homes with turrets and gables on the outside and nooks and crannies on the inside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

These furry creatures are a familiar sight, known to roost in chimneys and in the gables of old churches.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 20, 2023

Successive Greek governments have lobbied for the return of the British Museum’s share of the works, which include statues from the Parthenon’s pediments - the all-marble building’s gables.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 3, 2022

Successive Greek governments have lobbied for the return of the British Museum’s share of the works, which include statues from the Parthenon’s pediments — the all-marble building’s gables.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2022

With its rising towers, limestone columns, and jutting gables, it resembled a small fortress, as inaccessible as it was foreboding.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros