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
There were personal belongings and tarps at the scene, and a lean-to built from local logs over a firepit.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 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
“I gotta go,” he said, and before Mars Bar could react, he was over the fence and hurrying for the lean-to.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
