shanty
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OSHKOSH, Wis.—Peter and Lisa Smith sit inside a fishing shanty on the frozen waters of Lake Winnebago and stare for hours into the murky depths.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
The blaze broke out in the early hours of the morning in Guryong village, often described as one of the South Korean capital's last remaining shanty towns.
From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026
Despite the archaic language, it has the simplicity of a sea shanty.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Raphinha was raised in the relentless, grinding poverty seen across the sprawling shanty towns that litter the landscape in and around the neighbourhood of Restinga in the city of Porto Alegre.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025
It wasn’t a tar-paper shanty, but it wasn’t much better.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing shanty
A Long Walk to Water
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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