hovel
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As for what was built at Cinecitta, two favorite sets for Gropman were Tom’s New York hovel and his well-appointed, furnished Rome apartment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
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
We thought this was another one of his surprises, but he finally convinced us that the house was a hovel.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Mark me: In the bombed-out hovels of West Berlin, there was a first drag show to hail the city’s resurrection.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025
Garcetti has acknowledged that he became the public face of homelessness, with the attendant images of sidewalks and underpasses crowded with filthy tents and cardboard hovels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
In one town, veiled women winnow golden grain; arriving in the next, he finds elegant but impoverished residents strutting lace and velvet attire on streets lined with hovels.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021
The brothers also disliked the fact that bookmakers' shops looked like "hovels".
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2021
Some of the houses were attractive; most were merely hovels.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
The poet or philosopher, hoveled in penury, without books or scientific instruments, with spare meals and gloomy forebodings, never creates his brightest gem, nor solves his profoundest problem.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger
Meantime the crew of the hovelling lugger are in equal, if not greater, danger.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper
The hovelling lugger has generally a crew of ten men, and these receive no regular pay.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper
The tug86 had done her work of saving nobly and well, and had performed it at a time when the hovelling smacks could have done nothing at all.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper
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