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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.
In her 1996 memoir, Anita recalled watching the flamethrower tanks destroying the huts and described her many interactions with British officers.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
One of the images shared showed what appeared to be a makeshift hut surrounded by trees, while another showed a shelter, and one featured a tent and tarp, a gas bottle,a camping stove, and packs of what appeared to be alcohol.
In six months, the site has grown from 600 people fleeing gang attacks in nearby Delmas 30 to 5,000 people from all over the capital, sheltering in packed government offices and makeshift shacks.
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Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
15 Sep. 2025
Most folks know that Elvis Presley—the King of Rock and Roll—was born in a shotgun shack in Tupelo, Mississippi, and died in his over-the-top mansion of Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee.
The motion picture world of today reminds me of Rio – opulent penthouses (big IP) on one side of the street, and hovels (independent movies) on the other.
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Bill Mechanic,
Deadline,
15 May 2025
Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant but mentally troubled mathematician who had retreated years earlier to a remote hovel in Montana, had been arrested based on information from a tipster to the F.B.I., ending one of the longest and most expensive manhunts in American history.
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Serge F. Kovaleski,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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