lean-to
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Our home was a compact, two-story terraced house with a back garden and a little lean-to greenhouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
There were personal belongings and tarps at the scene, and a lean-to built from local logs over a firepit.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
At night she sleeps in an unheated lean-to.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2022
If you're outside and caught in the storm, find shelter and try to stay dry and cover all exposed body parts, exercise or build a lean-to, windbreak or snow cave and fire for heat.
From Fox News ● Oct. 26, 2021
On the other side was a little icehouse, just a lean-to shed floored Crowding the room were a dozen rectangular troughs raised on sawhorses and filled with ice.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
Her attention was fixed on a highway underpass nearby, where a handful of people were living in tents and cardboard lean-tos.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
Now there are at least 70 - lean-tos, makeshift shelters and tents of different sizes - spreading out from a restroom building at what was once a popular picnic pavilion.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2020
The county has yet to come up with a plan to gain control of hundreds of “alternative rentals” — tepees, freight containers, crude lean-tos, Sherpa huts, travel trailers and yurts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2020
They lived at first in crude lean-tos in the ruins of Hampton, burned by its own residents rather than leave it to the Union.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2019
The original room and kitchen soon disappeared in a welter of these lean-tos.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
