Clapboard is an English word with synonyms like weatherboard or siding. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Clapboard meaning
- A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.
- Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
- An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.
Synonyms of Clapboard
Using Clapboard
- The main meaning on this page is: A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction. | Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding. | An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.
- Useful related words include: weatherboard, weatherboarding, siding, cover.
- In the example corpus, clapboard often appears in combinations such as: white clapboard, clapboard house, clapboard houses.
Context around Clapboard
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Clapboard
- In this selection, "clapboard" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, white, old, big, house, houses and church stand out and add context to how "clapboard" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a white clapboard country church and a white clapboard house where. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "clapboard" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with clapboard
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
White clapboard homes and a little downtown remain intact. (9 words)
North Parma is a white clapboard country church and "Plain Parma" is an orange brick church. (16 words)
This yellow clapboard house, known as Tidewaters Edge, has had three additions in the last century or so. (18 words)
Almost two years ago, the married artists April Gornik, 67, and Eric Fischl, 72, bought a deconsecrated white clapboard church in Sag Harbor, N.Y., a former whaling village on the East End of Long Island, where they have lived for more than three decades. (45 words)
On one August afternoon, the structure’s clapboard walls seem to be floating amid the dense cloud of flora that presses up against them: Delphinium, baptisia, fragrant mint and sprays of Queen Anne’s lace are alive with heavy pollen-dusted bees. (42 words)
Reclaimed wood was used wherever possible—barn wood from Wisconsin and North Carolina was integrated into the great room and bedrooms, old clapboard from some of the old cabins was cleaned and now graces the ceilings of several bedrooms. (39 words)
Example sentences (9)
Reclaimed wood was used wherever possible—barn wood from Wisconsin and North Carolina was integrated into the great room and bedrooms, old clapboard from some of the old cabins was cleaned and now graces the ceilings of several bedrooms.
He drove us a few miles, stopping outside a white clapboard house where he got out, indicated the driver’s seat and said: “You kids go and explore.
Sections of Munjoy Hill that since the 70s have been zoned only for single-family homes or duplexes, for example, are characterized by big clapboard houses with more than four units.
Almost two years ago, the married artists April Gornik, 67, and Eric Fischl, 72, bought a deconsecrated white clapboard church in Sag Harbor, N.Y., a former whaling village on the East End of Long Island, where they have lived for more than three decades.
On one August afternoon, the structure’s clapboard walls seem to be floating amid the dense cloud of flora that presses up against them: Delphinium, baptisia, fragrant mint and sprays of Queen Anne’s lace are alive with heavy pollen-dusted bees.
This yellow clapboard house, known as Tidewaters Edge, has had three additions in the last century or so.
White clapboard homes and a little downtown remain intact.
During this period, wood clapboard siding was applied to the original adobe chapel walls as both a cosmetic and a protective measure; the veneer was later removed when the Mission was restored.
North Parma is a white clapboard country church and "Plain Parma" is an orange brick church.
Common combinations with clapboard
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: