lean-to
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Our home was a compact, two-story terraced house with a back garden and a little lean-to greenhouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
At night she sleeps in an unheated lean-to.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2022
If you're outside and caught in the storm, find shelter and try to stay dry and cover all exposed body parts, exercise or build a lean-to, windbreak or snow cave and fire for heat.
From Fox News ● Oct. 26, 2021
Across the street, English émigré Arthur Letts hawked menswear from a lean-to.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2021
Sam left his lean-to and walked partway down the mountain.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
But hundreds more stayed — and without homes, people have been camping out year after year amid a fire-denuded landscape in mobile homes and lean-tos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
Her attention was fixed on a highway underpass nearby, where a handful of people were living in tents and cardboard lean-tos.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
Now there are at least 70 - lean-tos, makeshift shelters and tents of different sizes - spreading out from a restroom building at what was once a popular picnic pavilion.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2020
They lived at first in crude lean-tos in the ruins of Hampton, burned by its own residents rather than leave it to the Union.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2019
She could see the shapes of other tents and lean-tos and the fuzzy orange glow of the beacon fire burning atop the watchtower, but not the tower itself.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
