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

The Rev. Kay Colleton will never forget the time she first laid eyes on Moving Star Hall, a tiny white clapboard building with a leaning chimney, a crooked roof and a storied history.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2023

And the houses, left soulless, died—windows glassless, doors hanging on single hinges, some of the clapboard already pruned.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt