hovel
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“This isn’t just a missing person case,” said Travis Harrison, a producer at NewsNation, which has pulled together a hovel of satellites and folding chairs in the prime real estate perpendicular to Guthrie’s address.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026
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
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
“There’s not enough room in this hovel for more than two of us!” said one man, his elaborate armor and demeanor marking him as the commander.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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
Where the $300 hovels seemed like a reasonable offer, or at least an affordable one?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2023
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
William passed peasants working the abbey’s fields, and their little dark hovels, lining the road.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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 Alberger, John
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 Whymper, Frederick
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 Whymper, Frederick
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 Whymper, Frederick
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