wickiups

plural of wickiup

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wickiups
Noun
  • Tour du Mont Blanc, France/Italy/Switzerland — Circles Mont Blanc through three countries over 8 to 10 days for reasonably fit walkers, with a mix of catered huts and village stops.
    Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
  • Tour du Mont Blanc — Circles Mont Blanc through France, Italy and Switzerland over 8 to 10 days, mixing catered huts with village stops.
    Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Then there’s the financial (and administrative) obligation of patching together camps that cost hundreds of dollars per week, per child.
    Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 4 June 2026
  • These camps focus on helping kids develop useful skills including local wildlife tracking, science topics, robotics and developing video games.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • While this area of Morgan Park just west of I-57 is rife with new development, the houses where the fire broke out were older shacks — one a brick structure, the other a frame structure with siding.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 7 June 2026
  • Gangmasters often put workers in overcrowded shacks; workers die of not just killings like this one, but also of suicide or accidental fires or extreme cold and heat.
    Matteo Moschella, NBC news, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • This style blends metal subgenres with traditional sea shanties, accordions — accordions are rare in metal, bear in mind — tin whistles and steel drums.
    Sofia Goldstein, SPIN, 2 June 2026
  • Check out Fishtown, home to historic fishing shanties that now house cool small businesses.
    Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • During the rainy season, their hovels turned into hovels on stilts.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The rooms Il Sereno is an all-suite hotel, with dwellings ranging in size from 460 square feet to over 2000 square feet (the penthouse suite).
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • The hotel is near surreal valleys, honeycombed with cave dwellings and frescoed Byzantine cave churches.
    Anya von Bremzen, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2026
Noun
  • The institute plans to repurpose the property as a cultural hub, with possible uses including artists’ residences, event spaces and historic archive management.
    Ian Cummings, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
  • Opposition leaders accused security forces of attacking residences linked to former Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire and former President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.
    ABC News, ABC News, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Days filled with seemingly endless sunlight, tables piled high with fresh seafood and fleetingly in-season strawberries, cozy lakeside cottages… there’s a lot to love about a Scandinavian summer.
    Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 9 June 2026
  • An additional 20 housekeeping cottages, sleeping up to six, are available at the lodge.
    Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 7 June 2026
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“Wickiups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wickiups. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.

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