hovel
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Even the day scenes feel tinged by darkness — especially when Shula visits her dead uncle’s home to find a neglected hovel of forgotten children likely to be abandoned by her judgmental aunties.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025
Eventually they squeezed into a hovel before being discovered by a turncoat cabinet member.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2024
But now it is 2023 and we are at Pace, the blue-chip gallery in West Chelsea, where this claustrophobic junkyard hovel contrasts sharply with the pristine white walls surrounding it.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023
"I was left in this crowded backstreet hovel in Halifax, while my sister went off to a rather grand life."
From BBC • May 14, 2022
“Couldn’t your father have that hovel cleared away, Tom?”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing hovel
100 SAT Words Beginning with "H"
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