shanties
- plural of shanty.
Example Sentences
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Shanties have made a resurgence in the past year and have even gone viral on the social media app TikTok.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2021
Shanties look backward, to homes left behind, and forward, to the return journey.
From Slate • Jan. 13, 2021
Shanties that look as if they were about to implode perch uneasily on streets set at a San Francisco diagonal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shanties built out of every imaginable scrap of waste—roofs of coconut thatch or gunnysacks, walls cobbled together from metal signs, wooden crates, or even cardboard taped over with plastic sheets—lined the narrow streets.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
Shanties, however, being labour songs, one is 'up against' the strong psychological connection between the song and its manual acts.
From The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties by Terry, Richard Runciman
