as in hut
a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling
a farmer's shack out in the fields that's used for lambing and as a shelter from storms
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Recent Examples of shack
Just down the street from the colossal blue Scientology center (one of LA’s top locations for taking an ironic selfie) is Found Oyster, a delightful and perennially (pleasantly) crowded seafood restaurant inspired by clam shacks on the East Coast.
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Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
Over the winter, Jamal had remodeled his fish shack.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
So much for living in a 300-square-foot shack in the woods.
—Tj MacIas, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Arlington Wood Outdoor Storage Shed This wooden shed isn’t your typical tool shack.
—Kenedee Fowler, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2025
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Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
Over the winter, Jamal had remodeled his fish shack.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
So much for living in a 300-square-foot shack in the woods.
—Tj MacIas, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Arlington Wood Outdoor Storage Shed This wooden shed isn’t your typical tool shack.
—Kenedee Fowler, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for shack
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shack
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Its current form—a dream of ultra-luxury now reclaimed by the jungle, having lost out to a community of beach huts—struck me as an apt metaphor for Itacaré.—
David Amsden,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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The hostel also offers access to ice fishing in huts on the Saguenay Fjord, plus an onsite café that regularly features live music.—
Outside,
Outside,
3 Nov. 2025
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If Alt was going to be in the lineup, the Chargers had a chance to piece their front together and potentially contend, even after losing tackle Rashawn Slater for the season because of a training camp knee injury.—
Daniel Popper,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
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In Kakuma, a vast refugee camp near the South Sudan border, starting in spring, our documentary team followed clinicians and families inside the stabilization unit at Clinic 7, where the sickest children come.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
5 Nov. 2025
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Shockley and Maycock alerted the ship’s crew but alleged the staff did not take steps to remediate the issue in and around their cabin, according to the complaint.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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And the movie, with these two sexy people sparring for about 10 minutes, only to settle their differences over whiskey before a roaring fire in a snowbound cabin that looks like a vacation hideaway, has an unironic romance-novel baby-it’s-cold-outside vibe of old-school desert-island love.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Shack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shack. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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