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Example Sentences
Main Entry:
shan·ty
[
shan
-tee
]
/
ˈʃæn
ti
/
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Part of Speech:
Main Entry:
shanty
Part of Speech:
Main Entry:
shanty
Part of Speech:
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Example Sentences
But hey, you can make a fast buck handing out pre-approved home loans in homeless shelters and
shanty
towns.
But fearing the development of sprawling
shanty
towns around big cities, it has focused on developing smaller towns.
He has seen his
shanty
community destroyed by municipal authorities seven times since coming to the area.
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But hey, you can make a fast buck handing out pre-approved home loans in homeless shelters and
shanty
towns.
But fearing the development of sprawling
shanty
towns around big cities, it has focused on developing smaller towns.
He has seen his
shanty
community destroyed by municipal authorities seven times since coming to the area.
Runaway fires are common place in the crowded dry
shanty
towns.
Without mortgage lending, there are never enough houses in
shanty
towns.
The footpaths have become
shanty
towns of new migrants.
Yet initially they seem to blend perfectly with the
shanty
towns in which they stand.
First there was this whole thing about finding the
shanty
.
These people are given tin sheets to build
shanty
towns-but no compensation.
The police said they had warned the
shanty
occupants a week in advance that the structures would be destroyed.
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Main Entry:
shanty
Part of Speech:
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry:
shanty
Part of Speech:
Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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