(n.) A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the ice.
Example Sentences:
(1) While many, particularly older Albanians, are unconcerned about the gradual obliteration of the concrete reminders of a brutal, highly militarised regime, others believe the igloo-shaped pillboxes and spacious underground shelters should remain.
(2) So, even after a massive snow fall, we don’t get much time to enjoy its pleasures – digging out igloos once the storm has passed, pretending we’re Laura Ingalls Wilder and trying to make maple candy in the snow , sledding down that one big hill.
(3) The igloo-shaped tents, on the shores of Lake Torassieppi in Finnish Lapland, have one transparent wall facing north for prime sky-gazing.
(4) With temperatures at a pleasantly bearable -1C, some of the crew went on to the ice surrounding the ship in all directions and killed time by making igloos.
(5) Igloo is working with the Homes and Communities Agency on a pilot scheme at Trevenson Park near Pool in Cornwall to provide more than 50 custom-build homes, alongside conventional new-builds.
(6) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian In the 1960s, a group of Italian artists known as the Arte Povera movement rejected the industrial achievements of Italy's postwar "miracle", choosing instead to make art that was rooted in nature and the fragile human past – casting tree trunks, building igloos.
(7) They suggested householders excavate holes in their living rooms and build “igloo shelters”; the components cost £554 – about £1,500 in today’s money.
(8) He told Grieve: "You would virtually have to be living in an igloo not to know the identity of at least one Premier League footballer who has obtained an injunction.
(9) I'm going to be a lonely old hermit living out in some kind of desert igloo with a couple of robots.'"
(10) The message he wanted the meeting to send out to the Occupy protesters huddling in their igloos was that Davos "gets it".
(11) Your red top drones on about British jobs for British workers, yet your own reporters' pay has been on ice so long it was last seen living in an igloo and hunting seals.
(12) It looks fun: Camp Alphaville (@CampAlphaville) What the heck is an igloo anyway?
(13) Or, as Michael Bruce, the CEO of online estate agent Purplebricks.com, puts it: “Inspiring people to realise their potential.” Worst part of the job: “Too many meetings,” says John Styring, the CEO of Igloo Books.
(14) John Sawyer, head of custom-build at builder Igloo Regeneration, suggests these homes typically offer 10% more space for an average £10,000 less than an equivalent new-build.
(15) The Occupy protesters have set up a camp of igloos in this Swiss Alpine resort attended by prime ministers, central bankers, business people and charitable organisations from across the globe.
(16) The resort also offers igloo-building, skidoo rides and a tour of the slopes on a piste basher.
(17) Its discreet style is inspired by the old Rapa Nui dwellings, which someone described to me as flat-roofed igloos but with grass growing over the top.
(18) This year the protests will be centred on an igloo, which will be home to Occupy the World Economic Forum.
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.