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gable end

NOUN
  1. the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof

How To Use gable end In A Sentence

  • Daubing a slogan on a wall is far cheaper than covering a gable end, and quicker.
  • A train was derailed after a wall collapsed on to the track, the gable end of a house crumbled on to a car, trees toppled over and garden fences were blown away.
  • Gable end facade hanger cables are tensioned against the main roof cables, above top left.
  • The mural on the gable end of the recently painted community centre is, ‘always a pleasant surprise,’ said the adjudicators.
  • Other distinctive features are the blank panels and the pedimented dormers and the swooping gable ends. Times, Sunday Times
  • Initially I shall think small, accepting private commissions on the basis of work exhibited on the gable end of the shop.
  • A fireball then burst from the gable end of the second property and damaged a third.
  • Outside, the gable end of the house is decorated with a peacock made out of bottle glass. Times, Sunday Times
  • Barmaid Kathryn, 22, said: ‘They only came to render the wall and repair the gable end.’
  • The sitting room reeked of damp and mould, the source of which was seeping through the plaster on the south-facing gable end.
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