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
Her likeness, hauled down in the war’s first year, is now boxed up in a black lean-to outside the damaged art museum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
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
Apples piled high, some lent their aroma to the air from where they dried in the sun on the lean-to roofs and others as they bubbled into jellies and jams.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
By Tuesday, more bamboo and tarpaulins had been brought into the camp, to build new shelters for people crowding under poles and lean-tos.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
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
Large piles of wheelless bikes stacked alongside tents and lean-tos are a permanent fixture in many homeless encampments throughout Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 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
I walk past one of the lean-tos and see a little girl crouching just inside the door, her arms wrapped around her knees.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
