shanty
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OSHKOSH, Wis.—Peter and Lisa Smith sit inside a fishing shanty on the frozen waters of Lake Winnebago and stare for hours into the murky depths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
On opening day, Micheal Boushele grilled brats next to his family’s fishing shanty under sunny skies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
The blaze broke out in the early hours of the morning in Guryong village, often described as one of the South Korean capital's last remaining shanty towns.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
Catherine has invited Fisherman's Friends from Port Isaac to sing a sea shanty in the Together at Christmas service in Westminster Abbey on Friday.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
My room was upstairs in a wooden shanty structure that had never known paint.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
The programme will conclude with the traditional medley of sea shanties, Pomp and Circumstance and Auld Lang Syne.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
Only days earlier, Typhoon Kalmaegi sent floodwaters rushing through the towns and cities of Cebu province, sweeping away cars, riverside shanties and massive shipping containers.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2025
Wise had picked up two or three CDs of sea shanties, along with an album of barrel organ tunes, for inspiration.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
Besides torch songs, sea shanties, Latino roots and rockabilly tunes have been heard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
“If the shanties were gone, think what a resort site this very cliff might be.”
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
I shantied for a week with Crop, under the shadow of Mount Marcy.
From Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
They shantied on the outlet, just at the foot of the lake, below the high rocky bluff round which the little bay there sweeps.
From Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
We shantied together on the Muddywaski, and a better man than John Burton never rode a log in the Ottaway country, which is sayin’ a good deal.
From The Bail Jumper by Stead, Robert J. C.
Alistair Beaton's script is not so much a play as a series of sketches; Anthony Neilson's production is remorselessly larky, with lots of arch posturing and yo-ho-ho shantying.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2010
He had been working his farm for a spell and had gone back reluctantly to shantying because he needed the money in a slack season.
From Children of the Tenements by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)
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