(n.) An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
(n.) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
(n.) A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
(v. t.) To put in a hovel; to shelter.
Example Sentences:
(1) There, I came to a muddy hovel and made my way down into a damp, dark cave.
(2) The scene in the hovel was a little muddled, and it was not until the scene with the flowers that the study of a man seeking in wandering wits a refuge from intolerable reality really came into the round.
(3) Nor am I living in a hovel with a dirt floor and no running water,” she said.
(4) I recently issued myself with an eviction notice for the end of April to get out of my little hovel – a threat already pushed forward from Christmas.
(5) A few kilometres away, outside the town of Azaz, 60-year-old Hamida is living in a concrete hovel with her two grown-up daughters.
(6) They would throw together weird hovels, filled with random doors and windows, huge gaps in the walls, bizarre jutting extensions, like nightmarish sets from a German expressionistic horror movie.
(7) March 23, 2013 Guardian executive hovel... 3.14am GMT I want a mini snow plough They're whizzing around the playing surface clearing snow at a furious pace.
(8) For Waugh, the club consisted of “epileptic royalty from their villas of exile; uncouth peers from crumbling country seats; smooth young men of uncertain tastes from embassies and legations; illiterate lairds from wet granite hovels in the Highlands; ambitious young barristers and Conservative candidates torn from the London season and the indelicate advances of debutantes; all that was most sonorous of name and title”.
(9) I walked for another hour and got back to my hovel.
(10) • thethirty-ninesteps.co.uk , open daily noon-10pm, noon-11pm Thurs-Sat The Hovelling Boat Inn, Ramsgate The Hovelling Boat, which recently celebrated its first birthday, was named after a pub that existed on the site until 1909.
(11) But everyone also does tons of drugs, makes really experimental music, does crazy shit and lives in a hovel with no heating."
(12) They would throw together weird hovels, filled with random doors and windows, huge gaps in the walls, bizarre jutting extensions, like nightmarish sets from a German expressionistic horror movie."
(13) Photographs in the Amnesty report reveal the filthy insides of Qatar's accommodation for the workers who build their air-conditioned palaces, malls and five-star hotels: dank, windowless hovels, dangerously hot without air-conditioning; primitive dormitories cramming together crowds of men far from their homes and families.
(14) I get by.” Squinting across the riverbed Cabrera could see a new neighbour: Sergio Avinia, 42, a recent arrival cleaved from a family in California, waist-deep in a hole, bare-chested and sweating, excavating a hovel with improvised tools.
Shanty
Definition:
(a.) Jaunty; showy.
(n.) A small, mean dwelling; a rough, slight building for temporary use; a hut.
(v. i.) To inhabit a shanty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Starting in Latin America, Asia and Africa, working with developers whose customers live in the favelas and shanty towns and townships, Mozilla aims to foment revolution which, if it succeeds, will filter back to the west.
(2) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Housing First makes a proper roof the first priority ... a homeless shanty near the GM building in Detroit, Michigan.
(4) Carers of children in the New Shanty area were the least likely to know of the need for measles vaccination and to be visited by a community health worker.
(5) Most ship-breaking workers are migrants from the north who rent rooms in the warren of makeshift shanties that totter over the water’s edge.
(6) At my American college the entire main campus was filled with shanty towns protesting apartheid.
(7) A poverty-stricken nation of shanty towns 50 years ago, it has become the world’s number one city and is aiming to be the world’s first smart nation .
(8) "There are parts out there which have basically turned into shanty towns," he said, pointing in the direction of Jaywick, a council ward which earned the unhappy distinction in 2010 of being placed first in the UK's Indices of Multiple Deprivation, a government report which ranks neighbourhoods using statistics for income, employment, health, disability, crime and living standards.
(9) It really comes to something when the UN special investigator on housing, more familiar with shanty towns and favelas, has expressed herself so fiercely on the subject of the UK bedroom tax .
(10) From there they moved to a neighbouring shanty, the Favela das Imbuias, where Criolo spent the first five years of his life.
(11) But she needs to be able to frame the conversation around her own assumptions – that this housing would represent a radical, even beautiful new future – rather than his: that it would be a shanty town thrown up with plywood.
(12) The basic child-health problems in the shanty towns of Lima are protein-calorie malnutrition and infectious disease.
(13) A survey of 428 households in a shanty town in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, revealed high prevalences of Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura.
(14) In Carrefour, a shanty town south of the capital, bodies are being burned in an enormous pile on waste ground near the ocean.
(15) Or as another archaeologist put it: "By comparison, everything else in the area looks like a shanty town."
(16) It feels like somewhere between a kibbutz and a neat but chaotic shanty town.
(17) The city is becoming a shanty town … Worst of all, it is unsafe.
(18) The city, with an estimated five million people, is believed to be the fastest-growing capital in the world and new, illegal shanty towns creep up and over the hillsides every year.
(19) But airport perimeter fences are often surrounded by the worst poverty, such as the shanty towns in Luanda, the Angolan airport from where that last reported Heathrow-bound stowaway flew.
(20) Plesch, alongside Shanti Sattler, initiated the fight for the release of the UN archive in 2007.