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Synonyms for eaves


Grammar : Noun
Spell : eev
Phonetic Transcription : iv



Définition of eaves

Origin :
  • see eave.
  • noun overhang
Example sentences :
  • You can feel your heart drop, drop, like water off the eaves.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • Square and small and high stood the tower, as high as the church's eaves.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various
  • It had a dormer window, at no great distance above the eaves.
  • Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
  • It reached a little above the eaves, right under the dormer window.
  • Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
  • Deep under the eaves I could make out row after row of boxes and chests.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • It shrieked and howled about the eaves and the old house squeaked and groaned.
  • Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • Owls inhabited the outhouses, and bats the chinks beneath the eaves.
  • Extract from : « Creatures of the Night » by Alfred W. Rees
  • The drip of the fog from the eaves was the only break in the stillness.
  • Extract from : « The Million-Dollar Suitcase » by Alice MacGowan
  • Already an iron ladder reached to the eaves of the building.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor of Doubt » by Frank Williams
  • Up it went swiftly from one to another, to the eaves, to the two men at the top.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor of Doubt » by Frank Williams

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