lean-to

Example Sentences

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The largest was unfinished and made from unplastered cement blocks with a tin roof, while two were just lean-to constructs of roofing sheets with nothing more, and the last an open, untidily thatched hut.

From Literature

He led them down an alley, past a corrugated iron lean-to, toward the dock.

From Literature

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

The overheated furrier rushed to erect a lean-to out of walking sticks and an antelope hide, fanning himself with one hand the entire time.

From Literature

Her likeness, hauled down in the war’s first year, is now boxed up in a black lean-to outside the damaged art museum.

From Los Angeles Times