lean-to
Example Sentences
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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
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
“Why don’t Fjerdans let girls fight?” she asked him one night as they’d lain curled beneath a lean-to, the cold palpable through the skins they’d laid on the ground.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
