Example sentences for: clapboard

How can you use “clapboard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Following a common seaport custom, the white clapboard village church, with its nave shaped like an upturned ship, was designed and built by local shipwrights.

  • The island’s main town, Dunmore Town, is a cluster of narrow streets lined by clapboard houses festooned with bougainvillea; handsome roosters strut here and there in the undergrowth.

  • The boardwalk takes you through a colorful architecture of red brick, timber, grey stone, and gaily painted clapboard.

  • The main street, Queen Street, pays tribute to the Anglo-Saxon myth with its clock tower, white clapboard and red-brick houses, the grand Prince of Wales Hotel, tea shops serving buns and buttered scones, and the lovingly restored Niagara Apothecary (1866) displaying old-fashioned medicine jars in walnut cabinets under ornamental crystal gaslights.

  • A pretty little village of pastel-colored clapboard houses, Hope Town is full of friendly locals.


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