Example Sentences

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Savannah, 8, pushed a black call button outside a Low Income Housing Institute tiny house village, where one-room shedlike structures provide shelter for homeless people.

From Seattle Times • May 14, 2023

At the Abercrombie & Fitch headquarters in nearby New Albany, Ohio, modern shedlike buildings spread across 500 meadowed acres, with stylish young employees zooming on razor scooters toward the mess hall.

From New York Times • May 17, 2017

Low-slung and shedlike, with its corrugated tin roof and parallel 615-foot slabs of poured concrete, Eastern Long Island’s newest art museum features a style that might be called Modern Agricultural.

From Time • Jan. 26, 2015

At the center of Camp Justice is the Expeditionary Legal Complex, a few trailers and peak-roofed, shedlike structures surrounded by floodlights.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2012

Every night he hiked up the hill to a place called Shack Town, where he had found a cheap room in a long, rickety shedlike building designed to house single men.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown