How to Use clapboard in a Sentence
clapboard
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The white clapboard main house and most of the log guest cabins were built a century ago.
—Laura Dannen Redman, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2018
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A small clapboard house once stood on the site, but it had been abandoned for years and was in a sorry state.
—Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 9 Apr. 2015
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One of its clapboard downtown malls is called Gold Rush Plaza.
—Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2021
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Across town, Amy Arenberg, 48, of Corte Madera, lounged on the patio of her red clapboard rental.
—Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2018
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Greg: The clapboard is yellow, and the accent colors are gray/blue, rust, off-white and green.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 May 2018
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The idea of cutting off all that life, all that growth and pluck, just for a better view of clapboard, sickened us.
—Peg Rosen, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 May 2021
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The home’s windows have black frames, and the Hardie plank siding is board and batten on the lower half and clapboard on the upper.
—BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2022
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The gray clapboard house, with two airy porches, is perched on the steep slope of an open field surrounded by woods.
—Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2021
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The house’s clapboard siding is also yellow, and most of the trim is purple.
—George Dohrmann, SI.com, 17 Jan. 2018
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In May, Teigen shared a cute snap of younger daughter Esti holding a movie-style clapboard ahead of her first day at preschool.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 20 May 2024
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Along the way, peep streets lined with white clapboard cottages with shutters in tell-tale shades of pastel.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2023
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Work on the home — a two-story clad in clapboard and flagstone — began a little more than a year ago.
—Marialuisa Rincon, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2018
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The blacksmith was a lean man with a sad, rectilinear face and hair the color of clapboard.
—Elizabeth McCracken, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
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The two-story clapboard house with a center gable sits in a modest neighborhood about a half-mile from the beach.
—Anita Lee, ProPublica, 24 June 2022
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Painting your front door this inviting shade of blue, paired with a white clapboard house and front porch swing, defines a scenic home.
—Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 23 Feb. 2024
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The Talleys live in a white clapboard farmhouse that sits a few hundred yards from Abele’s mobile home.
—The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2022
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Beat-up screen door, concrete porch and white clapboard siding stained and chipped like bad dental work.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Dec. 2022
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From the front, the one-story clapboard house looks dingy and dilapidated, and the lawn is cluttered with crap.
—Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
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The house sat at the top of a winding street in a neighborhood of mostly two-story clapboard houses.
—Washington Post, 15 May 2017
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The clapboard house sits off a gravel road on the outskirts of town, partly hidden behind a fence and a heaping pile of trash.
—Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2022
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This is the clapboard house where King lived -- and which was bombed several times during the civil rights struggle.
—Forrest Brown, CNN, 14 Jan. 2022
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But the Riverside house has been scalped of its cupola and shorn of its front porch, and the clapboard of its front facade has been replaced with faux-stone siding.
—New York Times, 8 Jan. 2021
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With time, the three-room clapboard house fell into disrepair.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
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From the outside, the 1 1/2-story structure has a classic cottage look, with a large front gable and white clapboard siding.
—Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
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The story of saltbox homes goes beyond brick and mortar, or rather—shingle and clapboard.
—Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 22 June 2022
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The tan triple-decker’s clapboard shows at least three bullet holes — from a shooting prior to Aquil’s, a neighbor said.
—Sarah Wu, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2019
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The Main House, with white clapboard siding, wood shingles, and a wide wrap-around porch, sits on 4 acres in the center of historic Manchester.
—Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
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The clapboard animal is a mock-up of the Trojan Horse of mythological fame.
—Nick Hilden, CNN, 10 May 2023
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The two-tone exterior in brown and sage green colors blends shingles, clapboard and wood.
—Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2023
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His clapboard, two-story house in Newark had an enormous antenna array on its roof.
—Clay Risen, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
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