boarded-up window
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A window that has been covered with wooden boards, for protection or because a building is unoccupied.
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- The old house on the corner had a single boarded-up window.
- Pigeons had made a nest on the sill of a boarded-up window.
- Light filtered through a crack in the boarded-up window, illuminating dust motes in the air.
- All the boarded-up windows along the street were a sign of the town's economic decline.
- The police had to pry open a boarded-up window to gain entry to the abandoned warehouse.
- In preparation for the hurricane, every coastal home had at least one boarded-up window.
- Children told ghost stories about the face that sometimes appeared in the topmost boarded-up window of the mansion.
- Despite the boarded-up windows, you could hear strange noises coming from inside the derelict asylum.
- The city issued a notice, demanding the owner repair the building's broken and boarded-up windows.
- We could see the silhouette of a cat sitting behind the slats of a poorly boarded-up window.