How to Use clapboard in a Sentence

clapboard

noun
  • Many of the old dogtrot homes and clapboard houses can be found around the state.
    — Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Snow paints the eaves over us and dusts the clapboard under the window.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • This front entrance is classic, paired with white trim and a tan clapboard house.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 26 May 2026
  • The white clapboard main house and most of the log guest cabins were built a century ago.
    — Laura Dannen Redman, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2018
  • On the right is a pool and two tennis courts, and in the distance there's a small white clapboard chapel.
    — ABC News, 26 May 2026
  • That’s a clapper board, also known as a clapboard, and by many other names.
    — Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2026
  • With time, the three-room clapboard house fell into disrepair.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Beat-up screen door, concrete porch and white clapboard siding stained and chipped like bad dental work.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Along the way, peep streets lined with white clapboard cottages with shutters in tell-tale shades of pastel.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Drawn on the outside of the envelope was a clapboard house with an open window.
    — airmail.news, 1 Feb. 2025
  • One of its clapboard downtown malls is called Gold Rush Plaza.
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The gray clapboard house, with two airy porches, is perched on the steep slope of an open field surrounded by woods.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The house’s clapboard siding is also yellow, and most of the trim is purple.
    — George Dohrmann, SI.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • When paired with white brick or clapboard, this paint color is especially great for a house.
    — Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The idea of cutting off all that life, all that growth and pluck, just for a better view of clapboard, sickened us.
    — Peg Rosen, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 May 2021
  • Work on the home — a two-story clad in clapboard and flagstone — began a little more than a year ago.
    — Marialuisa Rincon, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2018
  • Painting your front door this inviting shade of blue, paired with a white clapboard house and front porch swing, defines a scenic home.
    — Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The blacksmith was a lean man with a sad, rectilinear face and hair the color of clapboard.
    — Elizabeth McCracken, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The story of saltbox homes goes beyond brick and mortar, or rather—shingle and clapboard.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 22 June 2022
  • The two-tone exterior in brown and sage green colors blends shingles, clapboard and wood.
    — Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The two-story clapboard house with a center gable sits in a modest neighborhood about a half-mile from the beach.
    — Anita Lee, ProPublica, 24 June 2022
  • The house sat at the top of a winding street in a neighborhood of mostly two-story clapboard houses.
    — Washington Post, 15 May 2017
  • The clapboard house sits off a gravel road on the outskirts of town, partly hidden behind a fence and a heaping pile of trash.
    — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2022
  • From the front, the one-story clapboard house looks dingy and dilapidated, and the lawn is cluttered with crap.
    — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The first floor of the south-facing house is covered in horizontal clapboard siding.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • This is the clapboard house where King lived -- and which was bombed several times during the civil rights struggle.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The Talleys live in a white clapboard farmhouse that sits a few hundred yards from Abele’s mobile home.
    — The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2022
  • The home’s windows have black frames, and the Hardie plank siding is board and batten on the lower half and clapboard on the upper.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The tan triple-decker’s clapboard shows at least three bullet holes — from a shooting prior to Aquil’s, a neighbor said.
    — Sarah Wu, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • In May, Teigen shared a cute snap of younger daughter Esti holding a movie-style clapboard ahead of her first day at preschool.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 20 May 2024

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