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Recent Examples of shantyOnly big enough to fit a few people, Verdugo and the rest of his family would rotate in and out of the shanty during fishing trips for walleye, northern pike, perch and bass.—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 14 May 2024 Most of the mining towns in the area were just tent camps or shanty towns that wouldn’t last more than a year or two.—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 May 2023 Its barely visible tents and shanties melt into vistas of the downtown skyline and San Gabriel Mountains to the north and the flat expanse of city south to the sea.—Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024 Protesters compared their struggle for divestment to the struggles for divestment from South Africa in the 1980s, when demonstrators set up a shanty on campus in Ann Arbor to symbolize the sufferings of Black people under apartheid rule.—Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for shanty
The killing is the 72nd homicide investigated by Oakland police this year, and the first since Sept. 28 when a 32-year-old man suffered fatal gunshot wounds at a homeless camp in the 600 block of 29th Street in West Oakland.
Harry Harris,
The Mercury News,
13 Nov. 2024
The players have to scramble for bamboo tubes hidden all over camp with different amounts of money in them.
The area had featured multiple shacks built out of wood and tarps.
Blake Nelson,
The Mercury News,
12 Nov. 2024
The original spot, at 2295 Lexington Road and across the street from the fine-dining establishment Le Moo, resembles a hunter’s cabin or funky shack, with a wooden exterior and metal siding, covered in signs for beer brands.
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