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hut

[huht] / hʌt /


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On Keenan's experience of being in the hut, Pieter said it showed how the brain was a "metaphor and meaning-generating machine".

From BBC May 15, 2026

Shortly after arriving in Pyongyang, the American evangelist visited a humble thatched hut on the outskirts of Pyongyang where Kim was said to have been born on April 15, 1912.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 11, 2026

A group of young people sheltered under a thatched hut by the side of the road, absorbed in a game of poker.

From Barron's Mar. 14, 2026

Malick Diop grew up in Senegal in a thatched-roof hut with a dirt floor, sooty walls and roaming goats.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 11, 2026

He built a hut of driftwood logs and good strong branches, with a palm-thatched roof and a hard dirt floor.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Children linger in the narrow shade cast by the huts, some too tired to play, others trailing silently after their mothers.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

While beach huts regularly come up for sale in Abersoch, Elvin said it was rare for one on the beach's more sought-after right-hand side to reach the open market.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

Observations show the people use narrow outrigger canoes, live in large communal huts, carry spears, bows and arrows, and wear fibre waistbelts, as well as necklaces and headbands.

From Barron's May 18, 2026

Nyamumba Evelyne’s family moved into this settlement of six straw huts more than a decade ago.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

The air was cooler in the shadow of the black-roofed huts, a pleasant breeze rolling off Lake Michigan.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Farewell, Romance!" the Lake-folk sighed; "We lift the weight of flatling years; The caverns of the mountain-side Hold him who scorns our hutted piers.

From Verses 1889-1896 by Kipling, Rudyard

Most of the troops we passed had tents, and some were hutted in hovels made of pine-boughs, thatched with the leaves or twigs of those trees.

From In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by Morse, John

Captain Winslow and the officers and the crew of the “Osterley,” who had been hutted at a distance from the rest, on hearing the firing, had broken through the sentries, and hurried to the spot.

From Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War by Hoggans, T.

There was a sawmill near, round which were left several piles of boards, with which we soon hutted ourselves,—an operation the more necessary at that inclement season as we had no tents.

From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Franklin, Benjamin

The one with which Washington made his headquarters was hutted on the heights about Morristown, N.J.

From Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Stephens, Robert Neilson

Kinds of designs and experiments in hutting could be practised without expense in this simple way.

From The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Galton, Francis, Sir

The troops were landed, and there being no barrack accommodation for them, some succeeded in hutting themselves most comfortably.

From History of Prince Edward Island by Campbell, Duncan

He frequently accompanied the General, as at Valley Forge, in his visits to the encampment on the mountain, where the emaciated tattered wretches were hutting with all possible speed against the severity of another winter.

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

It was now the middle of February; the rains began to fall very heavy, and pointed the necessity of hutting the people; convicts were therefore appointed to assist the detachment in this work.

From A Source Book of Australian History by Swinburne, Gwendolen H.

Do you remember when Prout and you were on their track for hutting and trespass, wasn't it?

From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard




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