Sentence examples for gable from inspiring English sources
The word "gable" is correct in written English
It is used to refer to the triangular part of a wall that supports a roof, typically found in architecture. Example: "The house featured a beautifully designed gable that added character to its overall appearance."
noun
The triangular area of external wall adjacent to two meeting sloped roofs.
'Look at the gable ends of walls in hardline republican and loyalist areas - you see the change in tone in the graffiti,' he said.
In the back gable was the battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs at the wedding of Pirithous.
The Diele is entered through a large gateway at the gable end of the building.
It may be attached to a roof ridge, as an extension of the gable, or supported by brackets against a wall.
The later Archaic pedimental figures were executed virtually in the round, standing against or just free from the background of the gable.
The Crane Memorial Library in Quincy, Massachusetts (1880 82), with its tripartite layering of a rough-faced granite base beneath continuous clerestory windows topped with a tiled gable roof and its cavernous entrance arch, stands with the finest and most characteristic works of his maturity.
The ruins of the Earl's Palace and 17th-century houses standing gable-end to the narrow paved streets are quite picturesque.
The battle of wills between Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster in "Run Silent, Run Deep" (1958) had a hard-edged naval feel, but could just as easily have been set on Madison Avenue.John Mills, a British actor, specialised in playing submarine commanders under pressure.
Other previously unseen images include Monroe struggling to learn her lines on the set of "The Misfits" and her joyful reaction on learning from Clark Gable that his wife was expecting a baby.Ms Arnold first became associated with the Magnum photographic agency in 1951 and quickly made her mark as a skilled and fearless photojournalist.
When ticket prices are adjusted for inflation, Leonardo DiCaprio's and Kate Winslet's blockbuster, with a projected domestic take of about $600m, cannot hold a candle to Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in "Gone with the Wind" or, indeed, to Grumpy, Dopey and company in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
She broke out of this screen mold with her role as a wise and worldly paramour torn between a rogue gambler (Clark Gable) and a straitlaced attorney (William Powell) in Manhattan Melodrama (1934).
