How to Use gable in a Sentence
gable
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The roof can be low-pitched or have gables or a heavy tilt.
—John Sowell, idahostatesman, 18 Jan. 2018
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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
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Floor-to-ceiling screens and a louvered gable let more sun pour in.
—Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2020
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The thick granite-block walls remain intact, as do the 20-foot-high gables.
—Tim Folger, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
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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
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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
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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
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In fact, two crosses—the beams and the gables—are superimposed but offset.
—Shonquis Moreno, Curbed, 6 Aug. 2018
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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
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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
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The tall gable around the front entrance is broken into 24 sections by Tudor beams.
—Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 27 July 2019
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That goes from the stone parapet walls on its roof gables to its massive elaborate chimneys.
—Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2017
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The place, distinguished by three gables, is partially hidden by hedges and trees.
—oregonlive.com, 4 Aug. 2019
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The home’s dozens of gables, stone chimneys and pinnacles suggest a small English village.
—New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
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The home’s dozens of gables, stone chimneys, and pinnacles suggest a small English village.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2020
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The gables and wood siding outside were elements of a Gage-era remodel.
—Jennifer Rice Epstein, Los Angeles Magazine, 10 July 2017
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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
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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
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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
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The steep mansard roof was interrupted by ornate gables with rose windows.
—Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 30 Aug. 2017
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The building's Alamo-esque gable only adds to its fortresslike quality.
—Mraz, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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