How to Use clapboard in a Sentence

clapboard

noun

• 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
• 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
• One of its clapboard downtown malls is called Gold Rush Plaza.
  — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The house’s clapboard siding is also yellow, and most of the trim is purple.
  — George Dohrmann, SI.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The blacksmith was a lean man with a sad, rectilinear face and hair the color of clapboard.
  — Elizabeth McCracken, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The house sat at the top of a winding street in a neighborhood of mostly two-story clapboard houses.
  — Washington Post, 15 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• With time, the three-room clapboard house fell into disrepair.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
• 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
• The story of saltbox homes goes beyond brick and mortar, or rather—shingle and clapboard.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 22 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• The clapboard animal is a mock-up of the Trojan Horse of mythological fame.
  — Nick Hilden, CNN, 10 May 2023
• The two-tone exterior in brown and sage green colors blends shingles, clapboard and wood.
  — Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2023
• His clapboard, two-story house in Newark had an enormous antenna array on its roof.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Aug 2024