hovel
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Eventually they squeezed into a hovel before being discovered by a turncoat cabinet member.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2024
But now it is 2023 and we are at Pace, the blue-chip gallery in West Chelsea, where this claustrophobic junkyard hovel contrasts sharply with the pristine white walls surrounding it.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023
Before their new house was built, Reyes and her husband, Leandro Membreño, rented a hovel made of clay and galvanized metal sheets.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2022
"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
His home above Hippie Cove was a windowless hovel, which he built without benefit of saw or ax: "He’d spend days,” says McKinney, "grinding his way through a log with a sharp stone.”
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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