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Recent Examples of hoganThe school’s rodeo grounds are pocked with prairie dog holes, and roads to the mobile home park and hogans that house employees are mostly unpaved.—Matt Krupnick, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2024 Miranda Mullett, who grew up in Wide Ruins in a hogan built by her grandfather, initially embarked on her own effort to provide firewood to tribal members after visiting her ancestral home in December and learning of their plight.—Alex Rhoades, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2024 The first design was a celebration of multiple architectural styles, from the Navajo’s hogans to the Great Plains tribes’ tipis.—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023 Descheenie, who is from Chinle, said his mother was born in a hogan, traditional Diné home, and because of this she was never given a birth certificate.—Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2022 See All Example Sentences for hogan
Pods, cabins, wigwams, huts, and treehouses are also available.
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Jim Dobson,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
Its layout also ties the home to its earthly landscape; the living room is inspired by the Native American wigwam, with elements including a central fireplace and a hole in the top to let the smoke out.
The shooting carried out late Tuesday by assailants in an informal settlement of shacks in Johannesburg left 12 people dead and at least 15 wounded, according to authorities.
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Michelle Gumede,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2026
On the outskirts of Vịnh Mốc, bamboo trees sway in the wind above a line of streetfood shacks.
Herdman found success in part by making the recruitment of dual nationals a priority, starting four of them — including Alphonso Davies, who immigrated to Canada from a refugee camp in Ghana — in Qatar.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
Bowman has been competing at USA Basketball’s Under 17 World Cup training camp in Colorado.
Abdul Hadi spent his days hiding in hovels in distant parts of Syria, turning his mind obsessively over the old days of revolution, over fleeting encounters and terrible choices.
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Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
The figure of an older woman working alone in a forest hovel inevitably brings some kind of sorcery to mind, but Hjorth’s earlier novels haven’t made too much of the suggestion.
Six shanties on stilts were damaged in a coastal village in Zamboanga del Sur province due to the quake and taller waves, officials said.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
7 June 2026
For gardens with an olde California vibe, wander the grounds at Filoli, the grand estate in Woodside, then maybe drive over Highway 92 to Half Moon Bay for the quaintest, sea-shanty-ist spot on the coast.