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
• 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
• The Triple Creek Cabin has a classic gable roof, small porch, and large front door.
  — David Gladish, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2023
• In keeping with the style, the cross-gable roof features exposed rafter tails.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
• Todd Brunner buys this home, with three upstairs bedrooms and a steep, gable roof, in the spring of 2003.
  — jsonline.com, 16 Nov. 2022
• There are the triangular windows tucked just under the eave-less gable roof line.
  — Sarah Bonnette | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 30 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Its sea captain builder designed the four-pointed gable roof to be hurricane resistant.
  — Nancy Moreland, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• The broken-gable roof is characteristic of the classic cottage form in Pointe Coupee during the 19th century.
  — Lindsay Bierman, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2012
• Erin was immediately sold on the gable roof, half-timbered facade, and arched opening between the living and dining rooms.
  — Kelly Ryan Kegans, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Oct. 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• Typical Eichler features include flat or low-sloped gable roofs with deep overhangs over exposed beams, open floor plans with atriums or courtyards, and floor-to-ceiling windows.
  — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019
• Inside the centuries-old, two-story wood carriage house, its tall peaked-gable roof and rustic light fixtures evoked an enviable old-world farm-to-table charm; white dahlias and black tablecloths covered two long tables.
  — Kate Branch, Vogue, 13 Aug. 2018
• The house, which Anderson estimates was built sometime in the late '80s, has three pitched gable roofs, typical of a Tudor-style home, but black brings out a more contemporary aesthetic while shutters add warmth.
  — Lacy Morris, ELLE Decor, 29 May 2017
• The occasional low tower of a Norman church, or peaked gable roof of a seventeenth-century farmhouse, poked out from behind huddled green copses, and wildflowers were growing in the gravel between the train tracks.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019
• Traditional Japanese rectilinear designs had gable roofs and rooms matching the dimensions of tatami mats.
  — Davina Jackson, Quartzy, 18 Sep. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024