Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lean-tos
Noun
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Guests are pampered in personal huts that provide the utmost in privacy and silence and can choose from a full menu of options, including massages and facials that highlight local traditions and skin-healthy ingredients.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 Mar. 2026 -
The huts the group stayed in before the avalanche were also new.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Once our fishing guide, Scott Allen, pulled up, the three of us climbed into his ATV to head to one of his six shacks on the frozen inlet.—
Robert Annis,
Outside,
24 Feb. 2026
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Who needs lobster rolls when this 10-minute shrimp roll is a delicious reminder of shoreside seafood shacks?—
Susan Hall Mahon,
Southern Living,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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During the rainy season, their hovels turned into hovels on stilts.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Dec. 2025
Noun
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While outreach workers will be hitting homeless encampments throughout the city, encouraging people to go to shelters during the storm, the city will not be tearing down the makeshift shanties the homeless have built before Sunday’s storm, Mamdani said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
21 Feb. 2026
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Even Venezuela’s shanties were made with solid construction materials such as brick and concrete, made cheap by a strong bolivar, Venezuela’s currency.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Smack in the heart of the Exumas, Staniel Cay Yacht Club has become one of the most beloved Bahamian destinations for boaters, who dock at its marina before cosying into one of its collection of cottages and bungalows.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Mar. 2026
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Canoe Bay started small in 1993, but today there are dozens of cottages and rooms.—
Erin Hassanzadeh,
CBS News,
2 Mar. 2026
Noun
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That goes for basketball and football camps, too.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Mar. 2026
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Refugees waiting in camps for food and shelter.—
Sarah Al Asmar,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Lean-tos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lean-tos. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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