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
There’s the stray red dog who’s a steady companion when he’s out living in a lean-to during the summer working months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
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
Woodsmen, white or black, all country people were free to enter a lean-to, a hunter’s shooting cabin.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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
Roughly 93,000 inhabitants, many of them refugees from Central America, live there in illegal squatter settlements inside roughly built lean-tos, tents and ad hoc shacks made from scavenged refuse.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
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
Wisps of smoke were beginning to rise from the chimneys of several small log lean-tos along the roadway.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
