Example sentences for: clapboard

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

  • 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.

  • This almost unbearably picturesque fishing village perches its brightly colored clapboard cottages and lighthouse among massive granite boulders.

  • The 17-Mile Drive is a lovely scenic toll road starting at Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove, a pleasant waterside town of Victorian houses and clapboard cottages a few miles beyond Monterey.

  • One of these is the yellow clapboard Longfellow House, which was commandeered by Washington as his headquarters during the siege of Boston (see page 16).

  • 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.


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