lean-to
Example Sentences
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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
Her likeness, hauled down in the war’s first year, is now boxed up in a black lean-to outside the damaged art museum.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2024
Makeshift lean-to structures dot the overgrown courtyards of their apartment complex where residents gather to cook over fires.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2022
At night she sleeps in an unheated lean-to.
From New York Times • May 17, 2022
In the storeroom he put on his high boots and his oilskin raincoat and sou’wester, and then he went to the lean-to and put up the coal-silk tarpaulin on La Belle Sauvage.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
