How to Use gable roof in a Sentence

gable roof

noun
  • Like the house, the coop features black and white paint and a double gable roof.
    — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Opening up the ceiling to the gable roof was the project’s biggest splurge.
    — Marni Elyse Katz, House Beautiful, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In keeping with the style, the cross-gable roof features exposed rafter tails.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • There are the triangular windows tucked just under the eave-less gable roof line.
    — Sarah Bonnette | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The Triple Creek Cabin has a classic gable roof, small porch, and large front door.
    — David Gladish, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2023
  • An entire section of bricks beneath the gable roof on the south side of the building appeared to have been dislodged in the storm.
    — Matthew Kelly april 29, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Gavin Cater The great room, and kitchen living and bar area are connected in an open floor plan with vaulted gable roofs.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • One guesthouse features a traditional gable roof, while the other sports a roof that has a more dynamic slope to it.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Todd Brunner buys this home, with three upstairs bedrooms and a steep, gable roof, in the spring of 2003.
    — jsonline.com, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The home's effortless exterior gives you plenty of charm with a front porch, board-and-batten siding and a gable roof.
    — Star Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • For example, a hip roof, which has multiple slopes, offers better wind resistance than a gable roof, which has only two.
    — Michele Lerner, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Kuma pulled the curved awning in the hotel’s inner courtyard, for example, from the eye-catching karahafu gable roof on the front of the theater.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The street view of the two-story home shows a dominant gable roof that rises above the second-floor balcony and is painted a rich blue that’s set off by handsome gray and white trim.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 4 May 2021
  • An image posted by the church on Facebook showed the building — a thin, mostly wooden structure with a towering gable roof — charred near the front door.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Roof Shape The shape of the roof can also be regulated, as certain shapes, like hip roofs, are found to be more resistant to high winds than others, such as gable roofs.
    — Sara Kendall, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
  • The multilevel wood-clan home has the wide projecting gable roof, deep eaves, banks of casement windows and boxy shape associated with the Swiss Chalet style.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Customers also became fans of the restaurant's retro building, which has a distinctive split-gable roof with brown shingles, remnants of its former days as a Dairy Queen.
    — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The school’s main structure is a two-story Mediterranean Revival building that features stucco walls, a gable roof and a parapet entry with columns and an arched doorway.
    — Jeff Weiner, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Traditional Japanese rectilinear designs had gable roofs and rooms matching the dimensions of tatami mats.
    — Davina Jackson, Quartzy, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The homes, designed by prominent Valley architect Ralph Haver, are characterized by a very low-pitch front-facing gable roof and the floor to ceiling windows.
    — azcentral, 26 Apr. 2016
  • Creating a loft bedroom on the top floor under the cross-gable roof and an exercise space with a spa shower and laundry on the lower level expanded the living space to 3,295 square feet.
    — oregonlive, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The more than 45,000-square-foot building with a metal frame and a gable roof was constructed in 2015 as an indoor tennis club, according to the site.
    — Jeff Elkins, Oklahoman, 22 Jan. 2026
  • It is built of brick and stone, with elaborate detailing on the facade, and features Tudor-style architectural elements like decorative half-timbering and pitched gable roofs.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 22 Feb. 2024
  • American architecture is all of this, held together under one giant gable roof—even if architecture magazines don’t necessarily reflect that fact.
    — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 6 June 2019
  • But the Victorian-style castle hotel, with its red-gable roofs, whimsical turrets, and more than 100 fireplaces, has, for decades, drawn whodunnit enthusiasts to its signature Murder Mystery Weekends.
    — Angela Lian, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2026

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