Example Sentences

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Mark me: In the bombed-out hovels of West Berlin, there was a first drag show to hail the city’s resurrection.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2025

Where the $300 hovels seemed like a reasonable offer, or at least an affordable one?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2023

The brothers also disliked the fact that bookmakers' shops looked like "hovels".

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2021

Whole families were crammed into one-room cellars, hovels, and cheap apartments.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

First a house with no damage, next a house still bearing black streaks of soot and smoke, then a field of ruin, with makeshift hovels crafted from tent, brick, and scorched timbers.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson