eaved
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The outdoorsy, eaved frame is aggressively styled with hearts, crosses and a Star of David pendant as well as devotional blurbs like “Surrender to God.”
From New York Times
The Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library, surrounded by parkland, is a shiny pavilion with an almost argyle-patterned glass-and-mirror facade and a deeply eaved roof.
From Time
This larger house was a low, French-windowed dwelling, with a pleasantly eaved and flat-pitched roof, very refreshing to think of in these days of Garden City roofs and diminutive dormers; and its garden was well kept, and gay with virginia stock borders and delphinium and Canterbury bells in the beds behind.
From Project Gutenberg
But the first lot I ’eaved up turned my stummick, sure.
From Project Gutenberg
“I ’eaved up a corpse,” he said.
From Project Gutenberg
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