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Recent Examples of hovel
In what by American standards would be considered a hovel, Gong is raised by his aging grandparents, his mother having abandoned him as a small child.
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Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
29 Dec. 2025
But all the characters racing up and down the stairs of his uber-New York walk-up hovel are a howl.
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Amy Nicholson,
Twin Cities,
14 Dec. 2025
The House of Guinness also shares an industrial backdrop and a strong sense of period and place, moving from grimy backstreets to gilded ballrooms, from the towering mansions of the haves to the crowded hovels of the have-nots.
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James Medd,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Sep. 2025
Liu’s keen naturalist’s eye is ever-present in the portrayal of these multiethnic streets and basement hovels and food courts.
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Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
4 Sep. 2025
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Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
29 Dec. 2025
But all the characters racing up and down the stairs of his uber-New York walk-up hovel are a howl.
—
Amy Nicholson,
Twin Cities,
14 Dec. 2025
The House of Guinness also shares an industrial backdrop and a strong sense of period and place, moving from grimy backstreets to gilded ballrooms, from the towering mansions of the haves to the crowded hovels of the have-nots.
—
James Medd,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Sep. 2025
Liu’s keen naturalist’s eye is ever-present in the portrayal of these multiethnic streets and basement hovels and food courts.
—
Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
4 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hovel
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hovel
Noun
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The Kreung people of northeastern Cambodia build huts for their adolescent daughters to use for erotic liaisons and encourage them to have as many of these as possible before choosing a husband.
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An investigation is underway in Fort Lauderdale after officials said that a tiki hut and home caught fire early Thursday morning.
Noun
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The way the loss came about should be raising alarm bells inside the US camp.
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Across the fence of the compound is another refugee camp, and the children there are celebrating Christ’s resurrection.
Noun
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Police said two Mozambican men were killed during violence in late May in Mossel Bay, a coastal town in the Western Cape, where more than 50 shacks in an informal settlement were burned.
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Being joyful there — in the Dominican Republic, where small shacks and houses pieced together by junkyard scraps sometimes hold families with over a dozen members — seems incomprehensible.
Noun
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Alyssa Olsen, 27, said her family's cabin also burned.
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Now, the cabin where those memories were made has been reduced to ash.
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“Hovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hovel. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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