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lean-to

NOUN
  1. rough shelter whose roof has only one slope

How To Use lean-to In A Sentence

  • The flames still lifted from the hippies "log fire, but they were asleep in their shanties and lean-to huts. RUSHING TO PARADISE
  • Canvas tents and hastily assembled lean-tos disappeared in favor of nylon tents complete with metal poles and nylon stakes.
  • But the lean-tos on the lake that first night were filled, so we just put in at a lake campsite, a small beach with a clearing on a hill immediately behind it.
  • The central glasshouse had two lean-to hothouses, one dry for cacti, the other humid for tropical plants.
  • Every few hours, under hundreds of shanty tents and lean-tos scattered across the hills, they pour mercury from metal flasks into soil that they have dragged in sacks down rutted tracks behind bullocks.
  • He trotted back to their improvised camp just as Garin hauled himself out from under the lean-to. A TIME OF WAR
  • Some incorporated timber-framed lean-to houses, and the central open space could accommodate livestock.
  • During the summer months the few lean-tos available are often occupied, so it's wise to bring a tent.
  • One big advantage of the lean-to greenhouse is that you can connect it to your home by means of a communicating door.
  • Around in back, a tray sat in the empty wood lean-to built under the eaves of the garage. ABSOLUTE ZERO
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