shed
noun
a simple or rude structure built for shelter, storage, etc.
shedlike
-
a word derived from
shed.
Example Sentences
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You enter a shedlike structure and, when you’re ready, summon the storm by pulling a string hanging from the ceiling.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
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
The largest altars are often in voodoo temples, which can be rooms in homes or shedlike congregational spaces that are decorated with wall paintings and sequined ritual flags called drapo.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2010
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
