lean-to

Example Sentences

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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 • Apr. 21, 2024

At the start of the novel, Bran lives with her common-law stepfather and his family in a lean-to on their farm in indentured servitude.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2022

If you're outside and caught in the storm, find shelter and try to stay dry and cover all exposed body parts, exercise or build a lean-to, windbreak or snow cave and fire for heat.

From Fox News • Oct. 26, 2021

Across the street, English émigré Arthur Letts hawked menswear from a lean-to.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2021

“I gotta go,” he said, and before Mars Bar could react, he was over the fence and hurrying for the lean-to.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli