(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.
Speakeasy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The Lounge was a speakeasy in the 1920s and hosted Humphrey Bogart, Carol Lombard, Gary Cooper, John Wayne and Clark Gable.
(2) Opened by cousins Jack Kriendler and Charlie Berns in a row of brownstones on 1 January 1930, 21 has continued to draw the literati and glitterati to 52nd Street – nicknamed “Swing Street” – home to more than 30 speakeasies.
(3) In the Speakeasy Bar that evening I heard tales of Bigfoot sightings and monster trees.
(4) Open Mon-Wed 1pm-3am, Thurs 1pm-3.30am, Fri 1pm-4.30am, Sun 5pm-4.30am Ky Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ky is an Asian-themed speakeasy that’s behind a graffiti-tagged wall that you might otherwise mistake for the entrance to an abandoned building.
(5) The delicious irony is that this stylish brick-walled speakeasy sits below the former headquarters of the Prohibition Department.
(6) Sleek, white-topped benches await the arrival of their many and varied workers, while walls open out like the secret cabinets of a speakeasy bar to reveal whiteboards for the scribblings of what, its creators no doubt fervently hope, will be the musings of spontaneous genius.
(7) The downstairs bar is evocative of a speakeasy from the era.
(8) But what I especially enjoy about Weird Al's song is the way he deems tacky certain aspects of modern life that are now so common they can pass almost unseen: people Instagramming every meal (an "unfollow" offence if ever there was one); people who keep old liquor bottles in a pointless attempt to create a kind of speakeasy vibe; live-tweeting private occasions, and so on.
(9) The regulars at this suburban speakeasy would say so.
(10) Illegal drinking dens had long flourished in big cities; indeed, the word "speakeasy" probably dates from the late 1880s.
(11) Check listings for details Valentines Tucked away – no, really, this place is hard to find – on SW Ankeny Street, Valentines feels like a speakeasy.
(12) Open daily 3pm-1.30am Williams and Graham Williams & Graham, Denver Walk into this speakeasy in the Lower Highlands neighbourhood in Denver and you'll think you've stumbled into a tiny bookstore from wild west days, but the shelves part and you are whisked into a back room where the cocktails are some of the best you will taste in the city.
(13) Now the legend of Willie and his riotous shebeen-cum-speakeasy has been resurrected in a community play, Tales from the Golden Slipper, with words by the playwright Alan Plater and music by Orkney's most celebrated resident composer, Peter Maxwell Davies .
(14) Two days later the papers carried reports of a police raid on a speakeasy-cum-brothel in a smart part of Islamabad, called the Cathouse.
(15) Here, the speakeasy still lies behind the grand piano in one of its ballrooms.
(16) US presidents have been dining at the former speakeasy’s coveted tables since Franklin D Roosevelt more than 80 years ago, and it is said that John F Kennedy spent the eve of his inauguration there.
(17) Living in splendour in the city's Lexington hotel, he was said to be raking in some $100m a year from casinos and speakeasies.
(18) (Midlake band members also own the Paschall speakeasy on the square and sometimes wield spoons and sugarcubes themselves for the absinthe preparation.)
(19) With art deco decor, it still has that sophisticated speakeasy vibe.
(20) We wander past Twin Anchors , a dive bar with blackened windows – Mike tells us about how the area used to be home to dozens of German brewers, and the area proliferated with speakeasies during Prohibition.