Example Sentences

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Haggerty sold that building, but he’s still a landlord and still in love with his 1890s’ house with a mansard roof and fish scale shingles that he bought for $30,000 in 1971.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2023

For sale: Ivanka Trump’s six-story “grand and lavish” townhouse, built of white limestone in New York City in 1879; mansard roof, black and gold grilled exterior doors, classical details, unique features throughout.

From Washington Times • Jan. 19, 2023

It was also a different roof, a more steeply angled structure than the shingled pilgrim hat mansard of Pizza Hut.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2022

He was a world-class bad tenant, poking holes in the mansard roof of his apartment to let in natural light — and along with it came snow, rain and swarms of pigeons.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2017

The front of the plant was a brick commercial building of the nineteenth century with a mansard roof that bulged out into several rococo dormer windows, the panes of which were mostly cracked.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole