lean-to
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They had lived at the site in a campervan with a lean-to structure, according to the council.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Our home was a compact, two-story terraced house with a back garden and a little lean-to greenhouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
There’s the stray red dog who’s a steady companion when he’s out living in a lean-to during the summer working months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
Before impending nuclear annihilation, a husband paints the windows white and builds a lean-to shelter while his wife frets about his staining the curtains and marking the wallpaper.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
A loud bang in the lean-to turned her attention.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
Her attention was fixed on a highway underpass nearby, where a handful of people were living in tents and cardboard lean-tos.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
Roughly 93,000 inhabitants, many of them refugees from Central America, live there in illegal squatter settlements inside roughly built lean-tos, tents and ad hoc shacks made from scavenged refuse.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
Now there are at least 70 - lean-tos, makeshift shelters and tents of different sizes - spreading out from a restroom building at what was once a popular picnic pavilion.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2020
The county has yet to come up with a plan to gain control of hundreds of “alternative rentals” — tepees, freight containers, crude lean-tos, Sherpa huts, travel trailers and yurts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2020
We pass tents and tarpaulin shelters, lean-tos and cooking fires.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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