hovel

Example Sentences

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Even the day scenes feel tinged by darkness — especially when Shula visits her dead uncle’s home to find a neglected hovel of forgotten children likely to be abandoned by her judgmental aunties.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

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

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2024

"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

Except wouldn’t you know it, the doctor actually doesn’t want her there and the cabin is a hovel.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2020

At last they came upon a little hovel of the humblest sort, poorer than any they had yet found, with a roof made only of reeds.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton