hipped roof
Example Sentences
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The photographs showed fire within the house, just behind an entrance portico that includes rectangular brick or stone columns supporting a hipped roof.
From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2021
The Cheney house, built in 1903, was a broad-shouldered example of Wright’s Prairie style, its hipped roof extending protectively over a base of Roman brick.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2017
Built on wheels that can be covered when parked, the Cyprus has a corner porch and hipped roof.
From National Geographic • Jul. 21, 2015
It is a large, square house two and a half stories high, its hipped roof broken by handsome pedimental dormers with round-topped windows.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank
The main portion, with its hipped roof and mullioned windows, is very old, but the two wings that stretch to the east and west are comparatively modern, and date back little over a century.
From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch
