lean-to

Example Sentences

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Makeshift lean-to structures dot the overgrown courtyards of their apartment complex where residents gather to cook over fires.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2022

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

But the vehicle was impounded because he kept getting parking tickets despite his disabled placard, and for six years, home was a lean-to in Koreatown.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2021

But for some reason—some protective thought—they had crawled back into the lean-to when the mosquitoes first came.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen