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
Officials had also said there was a lean-to — a type of crude shelter — near the campsite, indicating they tried to escape the elements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
Before impending nuclear annihilation, a husband paints the windows white and builds a lean-to shelter while his wife frets about his staining the curtains and marking the wallpaper.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
The painters, in less than half an hour, fabricated a moveable lean-to out from a sheet of heavy translucent plastic and lumber from the trailer.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2021
He led them down an alley, past a corrugated iron lean-to, toward the dock.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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
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
The county has yet to come up with a plan to gain control of hundreds of “alternative rentals” — tepees, freight containers, crude lean-tos, Sherpa huts, travel trailers and yurts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2020
Instead I start walking down one of the aisles, as most people take off or shut themselves inside their lean-tos with cardboard or more tarp.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
