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hovel

[huhv-uhl, hov-] / ˈhʌv əl, ˈhɒv- /


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Even the day scenes feel tinged by darkness — especially when Shula visits her dead uncle’s home to find a neglected hovel of forgotten children likely to be abandoned by her judgmental aunties.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

Eventually they squeezed into a hovel before being discovered by a turncoat cabinet member.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2024

“I used to leap out of the hovel semi-naked every night, shouting impenetrable Shakespearean mad talk,” he said.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023

"I was left in this crowded backstreet hovel in Halifax, while my sister went off to a rather grand life."

From BBC • May 14, 2022

But he was also the city’s most famous kite maker, working out of a tiny hovel on Jadeh Maywand, the crowded street south of the muddy banks of the Kabul River.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini




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