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

At the start of the novel, Bran lives with her common-law stepfather and his family in a lean-to on their farm in indentured servitude.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 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

Some mornings, you forget Mom’s milk and head right on over to the lean-to.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli