shack up

Example Sentences

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Distraught and at a loss, Yamazaki shacked up at City Lights’ Grant Avenue office for a few months, his sleeping bag on the floor.

From Los Angeles Times

In the summer of 1921, long before garages became the settings of folkloric Silicon Valley origin stories, Picasso shacked up in one in Fontainebleau, southeast of Paris, to take on his own creative pursuits.

From New York Times

This takes a bizarrely conventional turn in his courtship of Elsa, whom he doesn’t merely shack up with but marries.

From New York Times

And, no, she isn’t desperate to see me shacked up.

From Washington Post

A novice filmmaker, she belongs uneasily to both categories, having shacked up with Sandro Valera, an older, far more established conceptual artist and reluctant member of the rich and influential Valera family.

From New York Times