How to Use gable roof in a Sentence

gable roof

noun
  • Like the house, the coop features black and white paint and a double gable roof.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Like the house, the coop features black and white paint and a double gable roof.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Opening up the ceiling to the gable roof was the project’s biggest splurge.
    Marni Elyse Katz, House Beautiful, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The Triple Creek Cabin has a classic gable roof, small porch, and large front door.
    David Gladish, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2023
  • In keeping with the style, the cross-gable roof features exposed rafter tails.
    Lauren Beale, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Todd Brunner buys this home, with three upstairs bedrooms and a steep, gable roof, in the spring of 2003.
    jsonline.com, 16 Nov. 2022
  • There are the triangular windows tucked just under the eave-less gable roof line.
    Sarah Bonnette | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The home's effortless exterior gives you plenty of charm with a front porch, board-and-batten siding and a gable roof.
    Star Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The street view of the two-story home shows a dominant gable roof that rises above the second-floor balcony and is painted a rich blue that’s set off by handsome gray and white trim.
    Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 4 May 2021
  • An image posted by the church on Facebook showed the building — a thin, mostly wooden structure with a towering gable roof — charred near the front door.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The multilevel wood-clan home has the wide projecting gable roof, deep eaves, banks of casement windows and boxy shape associated with the Swiss Chalet style.
    Lauren Beale, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Its sea captain builder designed the four-pointed gable roof to be hurricane resistant.
    Nancy Moreland, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The broken-gable roof is characteristic of the classic cottage form in Pointe Coupee during the 19th century.
    Lindsay Bierman, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2012
  • Erin was immediately sold on the gable roof, half-timbered facade, and arched opening between the living and dining rooms.
    Kelly Ryan Kegans, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Customers also became fans of the restaurant's retro building, which has a distinctive split-gable roof with brown shingles, remnants of its former days as a Dairy Queen.
    Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Creating a loft bedroom on the top floor under the cross-gable roof and an exercise space with a spa shower and laundry on the lower level expanded the living space to 3,295 square feet.
    oregonlive, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The school’s main structure is a two-story Mediterranean Revival building that features stucco walls, a gable roof and a parapet entry with columns and an arched doorway.
    Jeff Weiner, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • For example, a hip roof, which has multiple slopes, offers better wind resistance than a gable roof, which has only two.
    Michele Lerner, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The homes, designed by prominent Valley architect Ralph Haver, are characterized by a very low-pitch front-facing gable roof and the floor to ceiling windows.
    azcentral, 26 Apr. 2016
  • Typical Eichler features include flat or low-sloped gable roofs with deep overhangs over exposed beams, open floor plans with atriums or courtyards, and floor-to-ceiling windows.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Inside the centuries-old, two-story wood carriage house, its tall peaked-gable roof and rustic light fixtures evoked an enviable old-world farm-to-table charm; white dahlias and black tablecloths covered two long tables.
    Kate Branch, Vogue, 13 Aug. 2018
  • The house, which Anderson estimates was built sometime in the late '80s, has three pitched gable roofs, typical of a Tudor-style home, but black brings out a more contemporary aesthetic while shutters add warmth.
    Lacy Morris, ELLE Decor, 29 May 2017
  • The occasional low tower of a Norman church, or peaked gable roof of a seventeenth-century farmhouse, poked out from behind huddled green copses, and wildflowers were growing in the gravel between the train tracks.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019
  • Traditional Japanese rectilinear designs had gable roofs and rooms matching the dimensions of tatami mats.
    Davina Jackson, Quartzy, 18 Sep. 2019
  • American architecture is all of this, held together under one giant gable roof—even if architecture magazines don’t necessarily reflect that fact.
    Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 6 June 2019

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