shacks in English

noun
1
a roughly built hut or cabin.
In tents, shacks , log cabins and frame dwellings, pioneers gathered together for protection.
verb
1
move in or live with someone as a lover.
This guy's wife is living in an upstate trailer while her ex-husband is shacking up with his buddy's widow.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "shacks" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "shacks", or refer to the context using the word "shacks" in the English Dictionary.

1. It's murder to paint all those shacks!

2. They eke out a miserable existence in cardboard shacks.

3. 1 They eke out a miserable existence in cardboard shacks.

4. 🔊 A Congeries of small shacks lined the outskirts of the city

5. Little tin shacks and round huts are scattered across the hills between the banana trees.

6. The run-down villas and cement footpaths give way to dusty tracks and wooden shacks.

7. They sleep on open railroad platforms, using scraps of blankets as beds, or in cardboard shacks.

8. 15 The run-down villas and cement footpaths give way to dusty tracks and wooden shacks.

9. However, how would they work in areas where there are shacks, trailers and accommodations in the bush?

10. They and starving cats are the only living things surviving among the shattered buildings and corrugated iron shacks.

11. A track led her through haphazard planting into a clearing where three shacks listed companionably on limestone supports.

12. Are built of wood and aluminum shacks on the outskirts of town where they live close to each other.

13. In some spots, villagers were building cinder-block houses, a sturdy if ugly improvement over their flimsy bamboo shacks.

14. One night Henry spies a kindred spirit in pretty Barfly Wanda (Faye Dunaway) and, despite warning signs that she may be unfaithful, shacks up with the woman

15. It crashed into the open-air Simbazikita produce market, full of shacks, pedestrians and cars, and its full fuel load ignited.

16. Many are shacks of corrugated iron over a rickety timber frame, held together by large nails driven through flattened beer-bottle caps serving as washers.

17. They have been there since October, crowded into donated tents and closet-sized shacks amid piles of belongings and wandering livestock.

18. Human outdoor sleeping behaviors, over-night in field shacks and going to bed after active peak of An. minimus (00pm) increased significantly malarial infection.

19. We drove past a row of squalid shacks on the way to our hotel, where we slept in air-conditioned[Sentence dictionary], hermetically sealed rooms.

20. Celia’s fierce 160-mile-per-hour winds had been vented impartially on all sections of the city, toppling structures from flimsy shacks to huge brick buildings.

21. A rhetorical device used to dupe buyers into purchasing securities backed by shacks dressed as houses, and to secure the highest possible spot in telephone directories.

22. The first Cabooses in the early 1800s were basically makeshift shacks built on an empty flatcar to keep the train crew out of the weather

23. Photo via Jacob Blankenship for Bham Now The history of the American Great Southern Railway Train Depot in Bessemer began in 1917 when the depot was first built as a replacement for former wooden shacks that served five railroads in Bessemer.

24. ‘The provisional government Boisterously protested the students' actions and fought fiercely for the unconditional and immediate release of the hostages.’ ‘Young boys surfed on broken refrigerator doors; children ran Boisterously around abandoned sea shacks and flew kites; and families took the day off …

25. ‘The site is next to the usually dry wadi which runs through the Bidonville and hence it was available for development.’ ‘A 1989 census found that 23 percent of the urban population lives in precarious and illegally built shacks in Bidonvilles, or in somewhat better but substandard housing built without permit on unserviced land.’

26. ‘The site is next to the usually dry wadi which runs through the Bidonville and hence it was available for development.’ ‘A 1989 census found that 23 percent of the urban population lives in precarious and illegally built shacks in Bidonvilles, or in somewhat better but substandard housing built without permit on unserviced land.’