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clapboard

adjective as in wooden

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Example Sentences

They stride back and forth across the hot pavement, past barns and clapboard houses, dressed in bike helmets, running shorts, and nordic ski boots.

To learn the history of the Wampanoags and what happened to them after the first Thanksgiving, a visitor has to drive 30 miles south of Plymouth to the town of Mashpee, where a modest, clapboard museum sits along a two-lane road.

The old church was clapboard, and the shooter shot through its walls.

Even the little yellow bus that picks them up for school, tootling past neat clapboard suburban houses as well as farmland, seems somehow dispiriting, a symbol of a home-towny way of life that means them no harm even as it hems them in.

From Time

The taxi trundles away from the train station passing rows of gray houses with clapboard shutters into the French countryside.

A clapboard-covered porch extended across the entire front of the house, which faced westward toward Blue.

There he built a log cabin covered with a clapboard roof and the chimney was built on the outside of the primitive dwelling.

Their first home in this section was a log cabin with a slab floor and a clapboard roof.

Iron fire-shovels were a rarity among pioneers; they used, instead a broad, thin clapboard with one end narrowed to a handle.

It was a lost fragment of clapboard about four feet long, and with no house to it.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to clapboard, such as: board, frame, ligneous, log, peg, and plant.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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