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
In the distance she could see the hipped roof and squat chimney of the Moseby house; but nobody molested her.
From Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
The rear wing retreats two feet from the wall line of the main building, and has also a hipped roof of the same pitch as the main one, with eight-feet posts.
From Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Allen, Lewis Falley
