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shack

[shak] / ʃæk /


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It was a tiny one-room shack wedged into the crotch of a maple, with firm boards nailed into the trunk as a ladder.

From Literature

I pocket his money and walk away from them, letting my nose lead me to the sugar shack while I rub furiously at the mocking smiles, try to make them and what they represent disappear.

From Literature

The steps wound up and up—so far up that he was certain they’d gone much higher than the shack’s two stories.

From Literature

Brown himself recently met Fisher brothers Bob and Bill for lunch at his usual seafood shack, Sam’s Grill, to discuss the state of the city.

From The Wall Street Journal

It might be some remote barn or shepherd’s hut or forester’s shack—it didn’t matter.

From Literature