How to Use gable in a Sentence

gable

noun

• The roof can be low-pitched or have gables or a heavy tilt.
  — John Sowell, idahostatesman, 18 Jan. 2018
• Many homes also have pop-outs on garage walls that face the street and on gables, too.
  — Brian Sodoma and Clare Gersh, azcentral, 2 May 2018
• Floor-to-ceiling screens and a louvered gable let more sun pour in.
  — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2020
• The thick granite-block walls remain intact, as do the 20-foot-high gables.
  — Tim Folger, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• To finish gable ends, trim the gables with J-channel, cut each length of siding to match the slope of the roof, and nail the siding in place.
  — Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
• The life-size bovine who lives on John’s gable has turned in her rainbow Pride scarf for a red, white and blue rocket.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2018
• Arched doors and windows, baroque gables and a clay tile roof are among the 1930 home's character details.
  — Neal J. Leitereg, Jack Flemming and Lauren Beale, sacbee, 21 May 2018
• In fact, two crosses—the beams and the gables—are superimposed but offset.
  — Shonquis Moreno, Curbed, 6 Aug. 2018
• Over the past few months, the station roof and gables were replaced, which prevents further damage to the inside.
  — Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 19 Sep. 2017
• The rear view of the house is dramatic — a 140-foot-wide stretch of windows, balconies, overhangs and peaked gables, stacked two and three stories high.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2017
• The tall gable around the front entrance is broken into 24 sections by Tudor beams.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 27 July 2019
• That goes from the stone parapet walls on its roof gables to its massive elaborate chimneys.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2017
• The place, distinguished by three gables, is partially hidden by hedges and trees.
  — oregonlive.com, 4 Aug. 2019
• The home’s dozens of gables, stone chimneys and pinnacles suggest a small English village.
  — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• The home’s dozens of gables, stone chimneys, and pinnacles suggest a small English village.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2020
• The gables and wood siding outside were elements of a Gage-era remodel.
  — Jennifer Rice Epstein, Los Angeles Magazine, 10 July 2017
• Look closer, though, and the peaked thrust of that stage begins to suggest the prow of a ship, or perhaps the gable of a house — and is that a ribbon of sand that outlines it against the dark sea of the theater’s floor?
  — Trey Graham, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• Those rooms were under the roof of the historic building that went up on Central Park West in 1881, and Bennett gutted the interiors in one of the gables.
  — Wendy Goodman, The Cut, 26 Oct. 2017
• Wochit With its wide shingled body, its base made of stone and a dozen roof gables, this handsome house looks like it was lifted from the Nantucket seashore.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2020
• The steep mansard roof was interrupted by ornate gables with rose windows.
  — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• The building's Alamo-esque gable only adds to its fortresslike quality.
  — Mraz, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2012
• Wilkinson gave them a shingle-style house with a stone base and gables and dormers that lend it a slightly New England character.
  — Ted Loos, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• Each new temple is a near-copy of the original Crown Heights mansion: three gables, a central bay window, reddish brick.
  — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• In the bedrooms, the custom headboards were designed to imitate the pointed and arching gables of the surrounding canal houses.
  — Genevieve Mimeault, ELLE Decor, 6 Dec. 2016
• In the bedrooms, the custom headboards were designed to imitate the pointed and arching gables of the surrounding canal houses.
  — Kari Costas, ELLE Decor, 6 Dec. 2016
• Rising grandly over the settlement, with its gables and carved horse-head crown, its ornately fenced widow's walk, the Flake house is now a museum.
  — Mike Sager, Esquire, 17 Oct. 2012
• Its front face blends traditional styles — the shingle cladding of Nantucket, the pillars of classical Greece, the gables and dormers of Tudor.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 25 Jan. 2020
• The resort appears as a dramatic neo-gothic castle with its turrets and gables perched on a hill overlooking Lake St Moritz.
  — Jim Dobson, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• The facade used on TV is blah, a collection of nonsensical gables fronting the road, and the back aims for a faux-Cape Cod look, all cedar shingles and white trim applied to a rambling collection of rooms.
  — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2019
• Magazine The penchant for evocative artistry has been a staple of the architects’ catalog ever since—as has the gable, the closest thing H&dM has to a signature trope.
  — Ian Volner, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2018

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024