clapboard
Example Sentences
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Ms. Zambello’s production, adapted from the one at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2016, has Puritan costumes, gray clapboard walls, and simple furnishings that depict dwellings, a courtroom and a jail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
There are clapboard houses, a main drag with businesses bearing charming vintage patina and lampposts bearing flags of the town's military veterans.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2025
It’s a hip part of Brooklyn, where the centuries-old clapboard houses are interspersed with glassy boxes of recent vintage.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2025
It emerged long enough for a photo shoot at their residence, then was whisked back to Rye’s white clapboard town hall and securely stashed in a filing cabinet.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
With its soaring steeples, stained glass windows and chiming bells, it was a way more mainstream affair than the little white clapboard number that had spirited Stan away.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
