(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.
Shelter
Definition:
(n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.
(n.) One who protects; a guardian; a defender.
(n.) The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.
(v. t.) To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.
(v. t.) To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.
(v. t.) To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively.
(v. i.) To take shelter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(2) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
(3) Housing charity Shelter puts the shortage of affordable housing in England at between 40,000 and 60,000 homes a year.
(4) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
(6) The proposed new law gives victims of violence access to redress and protection, including restraining orders, and it requires local governments to set up more shelters.
(7) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
(8) Around a third of Gaza's 1.8 million people have been displaced, many now living in United Nations shelters.
(9) Millions have been driven out of their homes, seeking shelter in neighbouring countries and in safer parts of their homeland.
(10) The UK donated £114m which funded shelter for 1.3 million people and clean water for 2.5 million.
(11) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(12) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
(13) For services to Elderly People through the Minnie Bennett Sheltered Accommodation Home for the Elderly in Greenwich South East London.
(14) An unwanted pregnancy is one more nightmare for a displaced woman; campaigners argue that contraception and access to safe abortion should be treated with the same urgency as water, food and shelter.
(15) She is just one of many people who have contacted Shelter about cuts to SMI payments.
(16) After leaving the RCA, the pair continued to work on the idea of shelters that could be dropped into disaster zones or areas of military conflict and swiftly assembled.
(17) The discrimination in the policy of successive South African governments towards African workers is demonstrated by the so-called 'civilised labour policy' under which sheltered, unskilled government jobs are found for those white workers who cannot make the grade in industry, at wages which far exceed the earnings of the average African employee in industry.
(18) The quality of the re-insertion also depends on the care possibilities available to the patient: sectorial follow-up, job-aid centre, sheltered workshops, associative apartments, leisure.
(19) Nico Stevens from Help Refugees said at least 150 people had so far lost their shelters, but many of those had remained in the camp, sleeping in tents or communal buildings.
(20) The only way for the government to turn this crisis around is to urgently invest in genuinely affordable homes Campbell Robb, Shelter The Land Registry – whose data is viewed by many as the most comprehensive and accurate – said the typical price of a home reached £181,619 in June.