clapboard

How To Use clapboard In A Sentence

• The Mission-house, which occupied the centre of the three buildings, was constructed of logs clapboarded over and whitewashed. Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians
• A retired farmwife emerged from her white clapboard house with a hearty midwestern hello.
• There are no green-covered trees to shelter us from the icy north blasts, just the weathered clapboard of this rickety house.
• During Shiloh they were either in butternut there dying in the orchard, dying without water or thin-lipped still in Purdy, where cannon boom and rifle shot came clear even on a breezeless day, sliding through the clapboard walls, clotting milk and setting loose that first wall-eyed notion of leaving the South behind. HAROLD DERWIN BARNETT, 22 May 1925 - 16 October 2006
• Clapboard, chipboard, plywood, drywall — every third-line material you could use for building a home (as opposed to their intended use of merely finishing a solid home's interior) was found more than wanting in the wake of the earth's vigorously shaking its head “No ... this will not stand.” Like Hell Needs A Heat Wave...
• The new Cooke house will also be built earthfast, with timber-frame, post-and-beam construction, thatch roof, clapboards on the outside, and daub on the interior like its predecessor. Boston.com Top Stories
• Bushes weigh their meted dollops, and the boxy clapboard churches are drenched and cleansed by a piquant light from the east.
• I step over the yard toys and around the cross-country skis to reach the front door of the clapboard house on the shore of Lake Champlain.
• This courthouse consisted of a two-story woodframe building covered with clapboards, resting on a foundation of stone blocks.
• According to the Reverend Rose's only child, Helen Cromwell Rose, he was drawn to the old clapboarded and shingled farmhouse that stood on the property ‘Its wealth of tradition was deeply welded into my father's heart,’ she wrote.