hovel

Example Sentences

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Eventually they squeezed into a hovel before being discovered by a turncoat cabinet member.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2024

But now it is 2023 and we are at Pace, the blue-chip gallery in West Chelsea, where this claustrophobic junkyard hovel contrasts sharply with the pristine white walls surrounding it.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023

"I was left in this crowded backstreet hovel in Halifax, while my sister went off to a rather grand life."

From BBC • May 14, 2022

“I wanted a hovel, a hut,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2021

But he was also the city’s most famous kite maker, working out of a tiny hovel on Jadeh Maywand, the crowded street south of the muddy banks of the Kabul River.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini