shanty
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But under million-dollar luxury apartments chilled by whirling air conditioners, tenants in one of Seoul's last shanty towns suffer headaches in the savage heat.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
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
"My family has been torn apart," Ms Khatun says, as she sits in her parent's one-room shanty in West Bengal.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
They reached the shanty, Burnham wrote to Margaret, “just in time to hear Col. Rice tell some yarns about the war and life in the plains among the scouts and Indians.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Earlier this week, 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. 8, 2025
He sang sea shanties, determined to stay upbeat.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 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
In Hooverville tin roofs cartwheeled across the sky and shanties were simply shredded, leaving their denizens standing dazed among the wreckage.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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 S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond
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 Robert J. C. Stead
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 S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond
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 C. M. (Charles Mark) Relyea
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