gambrel roof

Example Sentences

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The owner of a longtime Summerland antiques barn had died, and the "historically delightful" 1921 structure — complete with gambrel roof and grounds with potential — was available.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2018

River view, sitting porch with four Ionic columns, gambrel roof, two chimneys.

From Washington Times • Dec. 1, 2016

It is a white clapboard farmhouse with old-fashioned gambrel roof, dormer windows, neat flower boxes at the window sills.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its sides—clad in weather-beaten shingles and inset with a series of large windows—slanted obliquely inward, rising toward a gambrel roof.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark