SHANTY in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for SHANTY, such as:
1. They were scarecrows in a shanty town.
2. Both the church and the shanty were in about as bad condition as was possible.
3. She hated herself for it, but she hoped that no one saw her go into the Bjornstam shanty.
4. For John, it had been a long, hard pull to get things started in the rickety old shanty that sheltered his school.
5. He had, with Carol's help, made his shanty over into a cottage with white curtains and a canary and a chintz chair.
2. Both the church and the shanty were in about as bad condition as was possible.
3. She hated herself for it, but she hoped that no one saw her go into the Bjornstam shanty.
4. For John, it had been a long, hard pull to get things started in the rickety old shanty that sheltered his school.
5. He had, with Carol's help, made his shanty over into a cottage with white curtains and a canary and a chintz chair.
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Meanings and Examples of SHANTY
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shanty
n. a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors
n. small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1 A one-room shanty of boards recently covered with rough stucco.
2 She looked doubtfully at him, at the low shanty, the yard that was littered with cord-wood, moldy planks, a hoopless wash-tub.
3 With a shaky, "Well, just a moment, to warm my nose," she glanced down the street to make sure that she was not spied on, and bolted toward the shanty.
4 He had, with Carol's help, made his shanty over into a cottage with white curtains and a canary and a chintz chair.
5 She hated herself for it, but she hoped that no one saw her go into the Bjornstam shanty.
6 It plays at cards on greasy oil-cloth in a shanty, and does not know that prophets are walking and talking on the terrace.
7 It was a roving shanty, the cabin of a land schooner, with black oilcloth seats along the side, and for desk, a pine board to be let down on hinges.
8 They were scarecrows in a shanty town.
9 To Aniele's house, in back of the yards, was a good two miles; the distance had never seemed longer to Jurgis, and when he saw the familiar dingy-gray shanty his heart was beating fast.
10 He started down the track, and when he was past the gate-keeper's shanty he sprang forward and swung himself on to one of the cars.
11 In this recess lies concealed a little shanty which leans against the portion of the ruin which has remained standing.
12 When these men were re-united, one of them lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered the enclosure in which the shanty stood.
13 Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's absence.
14 For John, it had been a long, hard pull to get things started in the rickety old shanty that sheltered his school.
15 Both the church and the shanty were in about as bad condition as was possible.
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