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
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
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
Lawrence’s move into the wood clapboard Rad Lab in 1932 marked an administrative, financial, and intellectual break between the lab and the Berkeley Physics Department, its putative parent.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
