Get Free Checker

hipped roof

NOUN
  1. a roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides

How To Use hipped roof In A Sentence

  • Every room has a fireplace and the double chimney stack rises through the steeply-pitched hipped roof.
  • Both buildings are square, clapboarded, five-bay structures with hipped roofs and molded cornices in the early Federal style.
  • The house is two storeys high, excluding a deep basement and an attic storey tucked behind the parapet which hides the hipped roof.
  • a hipped roof has sloping ends rather than gables
  • The Deadwood house has a typical asymmetrical composition with a steeply pitched hipped roof and a front-facing gable.
  • Stone quoins emphasise the corners and the central triangular pediment is set against a hipped roof with dormers. Times, Sunday Times
View all