How to Use soffit in a Sentence

soffit

noun

• The house is roofed with slate with copper for its soffits and gutters.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2019
• Icicles and a rock-hard block of ice form at the gutters and soffits.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Jan. 2026
• Next, look at your roof from beneath the eave, and the soffit will be facing you.
  — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2024
• Open soffit vents and holes around your roof can also be used by rats to enter your home.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2017
• The soffit is a dense string of meanders and squares of flowers and masks.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Sep. 2020
• Install soffit vents for intake, and exhaust vents at the high point of the roof.
  — Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2018
• Place baffles at the eaves to maintain a clear path for the airflow from the soffit vents.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 12 Dec. 2025
• Pieces of siding and soffits were either bent back or completely torn off his house.
  — Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2025
• Don’t pile insulation around the edges, because that would block the soffit vents.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
• The living room boasts walls of windows and a central brick fireplace with soffit lighting.
  — Megan Barber, Curbed, 20 June 2019
• The kitchen is light and bright because high clerestory windows are stripped along the soffits at the tops of the cabinets.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 18 Apr. 2020
• Installing fiber cement soffit and trim will further boost your siding’s lifespan.
  — Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2024
• Cockroaches also get in through soffits, gables, cracks, windows and unsealed garage doors.
  — Eva Flowe june 23, Charlotte Observer, 23 June 2026
• Wasp nests are most commonly found under door frames, roof soffits or under porches and balconies.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Apr. 2025
• When debris like leaves or bird nests blocks drainage, water can back up into your fascia, soffit or even your foundation.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
• Upgrades include a new roof and dual-zone furnace with gutters, soffits and downspouts.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 14 Mar. 2024
• This is preferable, as gable vents are some of the best ways to vent an attic, over other options like ridge vents, roof turbines, and soffit vents.
  — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 June 2024
• Clean gutters regularly so water flows away from your house and doesn’t back up into the soffits and under the roofline.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
• Clean gutters regularly so water flows away from your house and doesn’t back up into the soffits and under the roofline.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 20 Apr. 2026
• Things like roofs, vents, rain gutters, windows, garages, patio covers, eaves and soffits, walls, fences and chimneys should be assessed.
  — Cassie Dickman, sacbee, 9 June 2018
• Cover exterior attic and soffit vents with wire mesh to help prevent sparks from entering your home.
  — Rose Meily, The Mercury News, 14 June 2019
• Make sure that the ducts connected to the kitchen, bathroom, and dryer vents all lead outdoors through either the roof or walls, but never through the soffit.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 12 Dec. 2025
• The first level opens to an elegant formal dining that offers custom built-ins and a silver leaf soffit ceiling.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2022
• For gaps along soffits (the underside of a roof's overhang), exterior caulk or spray foam designed for outdoor use works well.
  — Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2025
• The fire moved into the soffit above the porch and burned through that portion of the roof, but it was contained to the attic until firefighters were able to put it out.
  — oregonlive, 26 Nov. 2022
• Squirrels may come in under the eaves, gable vent, behind chimneys, where rooflines intersect, or between the soffit board and the rain gutter.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
• Both ridge and soffit vents should have the same size openings and provide at least 1 square foot of opening for every 300 square feet of attic floor.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 12 Dec. 2025
• The size of the sign was determined by identifying clues in the photos, such as counting brick courses and alignments with the building soffit.
  — al, 10 Mar. 2021
• With slower-moving storms, homeowners who live farther inland might have roof and soffit damage or lose some trees, Dillingham says.
  — Nerdwallet, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2024
• Keep house vents clear of debris, and install one-eighth-inch metal mesh screening to prevent embers from making their way in through eaves, soffits, crawl space vents and under decks.
  — Jeastman, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023