shacks
- plural of shack.
Example Sentences
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As the American painter recalled years later, Borger in the 1920s was a settlement of “rough shacks, oil rigs, pungent stinks from gas pockets, and broad-faced, big-boned Texas oil speculators.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Many residents of densely-populated areas live in precarious conditions, treading through dust and living beneath tin shacks, a far cry from the lavish "Beverly Hills"-style villas of Cocody where ministers and football stars reside.
From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025
Tourists see abundance — the beach houses, the boutiques, the seafood shacks — but the year-round population lives in an entirely different economy.
From Salon • Oct. 11, 2025
They slept in rickety shacks, used communal bathrooms and showered in water that “was a very nice shade of brown,” Carter remembered with a laugh.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
We shivered in our shacks, warmed only by the promise of an eventual envelope carrying news from home.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
