EAVES in a Sentence

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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.

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 Meanings and Examples of EAVES
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
eaves
 n.  edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the 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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
2  The rain had ceased and there was no sound except for the occasional drip of water from the eaves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  The roof was so steep that the eaves were not much above the forest of tall hollyhocks, now brown and in seed.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
5  Ambrosch and Leo cuddled up in a hay-cave, back under the eaves, and lay giggling and whispering.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
7  Cassy lit a small lamp, and creeping round under the eaves, they established themselves in it.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
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
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
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
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.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV.
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.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
13  It stood nearly beneath the eaves of Boston's earliest church, and appeared to be a fixture there.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
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.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
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.