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[huht] / hʌt /


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He entered a camouflaged, net-covered hut, where he turned four keys on switch boxes to trigger Lima’s barrage of electronic noise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

His video, which rapidly surged to more than 750,000 views, shows his vehicle approaching an unfinished wooden guard hut with stud walls still visible on the outside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

In his small stone hut at the entrance to the Cavustepe site, Kusman is undaunted by the doubters.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

After returning to Ithaca disguised by Athena as an old beggar, Odysseus reveals himself to the son he hasn’t seen since infancy in the hut of the swineherd Eumaeus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

No one had noticed, but the night before, I had sneaked one of Aldo’s white dusting cloths into my sleeping hut.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

For this humble fishing village in Yemen, a tumbledown grouping of barely-there huts nestled between the water and an imposing mountain range, stands sentinel over one of the world’s most vital waterways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

He has maintained it as a cultural project, with elegant bamboo huts to receive visitors for dawn trips, organic lunches and tamale-making classes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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

More than 4,000 people are staying on the ship in Nagoya's port and 2,000 in the cramped wooden container huts, called "villas" by organisers.

From Barron's

Jabir hesitated before nodding and heading back toward the beastkeepers’ huts with his pups.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

During the winter which followed the campaign of 1779, Washington, with his army hutted on the heights of Morristown, was beset by pressing and formidable difficulties.

From Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched by John Frederick Schroeder

On its return from the Expedition, the regiment proceeded to Easton, Pennsylvania, and from thence to Morristown, N.J., where it was hutted for the winter.

From The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade by John Leonard Hardenbergh

In the winter of 1807, Napoleon established his army in cantonments behind the Passarge in face of the enemy, the advanced guard alone being hutted near the cities of Gutstadt, Osterode, &c.

From The Art of War by George Henry Mendell

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 Robert Neilson Stephens

In the arrangement for winter-quarters, the Pennsylvania line, consisting of six regiments, was hutted near Morristown.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving

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 Sir Francis Galton

The king, excitedly impatient, now led the way again, shooting hurry-scurry through my men's lines, which were much commented on as being different from Waganda hutting, on to the tall tree with the adjutant's nest.

From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke

We were put on shore on the 8th February, and instantly commenced hutting ourselves by brigades.

From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees

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 Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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 Gwendolen H. Swinburne




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