Example sentences for: clapboard

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

  • The 1835 white clapboard lighthouse here has been restored with a jolly red-and-white striped dome, while a less-attractive modern concrete tower does all the work.

  • After crossing the Sagamore Bridge turn on to Route 6A which travels from one village to another past stately clapboard homes, antique stores and galleries, and other appealing stores.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.


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