EAVES in a Sentence
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19 example sentences for EAVES, such as:
1. It was lit within by slits under the eaves.
2. The swallow has made a nest under our eaves.
3. The most beautiful is not the rainy day,but with you avoid the rain eaves.
4. All day today the rain poured down, rustling on the ivy and dripping from the eaves.
5. Cassy lit a small lamp, and creeping round under the eaves, they established themselves in it.
2. The swallow has made a nest under our eaves.
3. The most beautiful is not the rainy day,but with you avoid the rain eaves.
4. All day today the rain poured down, rustling on the ivy and dripping from the eaves.
5. Cassy lit a small lamp, and creeping round under the eaves, they established themselves in it.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of EAVES
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eaves
n. the overhang at the lower edge of a roof
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 The governor's mansion was brave with jigsaw work on banisters and eaves, but the intricate scrollwork on Scarlett's house put the mansion to shame.
2 The rain had ceased and there was no sound except for the occasional drip of water from the eaves.
3 The doors of the house were grime-rubbed, the corners and eaves were rusted with rain, and the child who stared at them from the kitchen window was smeary-faced.
4 The roof was so steep that the eaves were not much above the forest of tall hollyhocks, now brown and in seed.
5 Ambrosch and Leo cuddled up in a hay-cave, back under the eaves, and lay giggling and whispering.
6 WHEN I AWOKE IN THE morning, long bands of sunshine were coming in at the window and reaching back under the eaves where the two boys lay.
7 Cassy lit a small lamp, and creeping round under the eaves, they established themselves in it.
8 All day today the rain poured down, rustling on the ivy and dripping from the eaves.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
Context Highlight In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
9 A few minutes later our driver pulled up at a neat little red-brick villa with overhanging eaves which stood by the road.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
Context Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
10 It was lit within by slits under the eaves.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
Context Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
11 Betwixt the hut and the fence, on the back side, was a lean-to that joined the hut at the eaves, and was made out of plank.
12 The farmhouses were my delight, with thatched roofs, ivy up to the eaves, latticed windows, and stout women with rosy children at the doors.
13 It stood nearly beneath the eaves of Boston's earliest church, and appeared to be a fixture there.
14 Then he was to go away for they were birds ever going and coming, building ever an unlasting home under the eaves of men's houses and ever leaving the homes they had built to wander.
15 While the lord of Lemnos is busied thus in the borders of Aeolia, Evander is roused from his low dwelling by the gracious daylight and the matin songs of birds from the eaves.
Example Sentence:
1 The swallow has made a nest under our eaves.
2 Outside bright snow can be seen piled on the eaves of massive dark-wood buildings, whose small windows glow with goodies.
3 The most beautiful is not the rainy day,but with you avoid the rain eaves.