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[huht] / hʌt /


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His video, which rapidly surged to more than 750,000 views, shows his vehicle approaching an unfinished wooden guard hut with stud walls still visible on the outside.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

In his small stone hut at the entrance to the Cavustepe site, Kusman is undaunted by the doubters.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

So, before jumping into today’s news, don’t miss: a lively reader debate on Gen X’s affinity for bars and one couple’s journey renovating a ramshackle hut on the Irish coast into their dream home.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

After returning to Ithaca disguised by Athena as an old beggar, Odysseus reveals himself to the son he hasn’t seen since infancy in the hut of the swineherd Eumaeus.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

But before they could pass through it, the door to the hut swung open, and heavy orange light spilled out.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

They have also tried to stop poorly equipped climbers from summitting and mandating that visitors spend at least one night at one of the huts on the trails.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

Photos show the construction of observation huts to the north, south and west of the blast site, some 10,000 yards—about 5½ miles—away.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

"We've not seen one for years," he said, noting there were only 17 huts on that stretch compared with about 50 on the left side.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

Observations show the people use narrow outrigger canoes, live in large communal huts, carry spears, bows and arrows, and wear fibre waistbelts, as well as necklaces and headbands.

From Barron's May 18, 2026

Bushes had sprung up everywhere; small huts were completely swallowed in browned grass.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There was a sawmill near, round which were left several piles of boards, with which we soon hutted ourselves,—an operation the more necessary at that inclement season as we had no tents.

From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Benjamin Franklin

His troops, hutted among the heights of Morristown, were half fed, half clothed, and inferior in number to the garrison of New York.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving

Habit had familiarized the American army to the use of huts constructed by themselves; and both officers and men were content to pass the winter in a hutted camp.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

Farewell, Romance!" the Lake-folk sighed; "We lift the weight of flatling years; The caverns of the mountain-side Hold him who scorns our hutted piers.

From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling

The Sixth was hutted in temporary structures built of logs surmounted by tents.

From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd

We were put on shore on the 8th February, and instantly commenced hutting ourselves by brigades.

From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees

It was now the middle of February; the rains began to fall very heavy, and pointed the necessity of hutting the people; convicts were therefore appointed to assist the detachment in this work.

From A Source Book of Australian History by Gwendolen H. Swinburne

Kinds of designs and experiments in hutting could be practised without expense in this simple way.

From The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Sir Francis Galton

He frequently accompanied the General, as at Valley Forge, in his visits to the encampment on the mountain, where the emaciated tattered wretches were hutting with all possible speed against the severity of another winter.

From The Conqueror by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Do you remember when Prout and you were on their track for hutting and trespass, wasn't it?

From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling




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