shack

Example Sentences

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"It had a wood stove and no running water and a tin roof, rusted. It was a funky little shack."

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

He eventually found 7 ½ West End Court in Long Branch, New Jersey, a twenty-five-foot-wide shotgun shack that sat a few blocks away from the beach.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2026

He lives in a shack without running water and sees his family at best every six months.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

The FBI had tracked the Unabomber futilely for 18 years before his capture in a hermit’s shack in Montana in April 1996.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

There was a church there and a saloon, and in back of the saloon an added-on frame shack building with a tattered movie screen and a battery-operated small film projector.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen