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
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
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
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
He walked off to his lean-to and removed his vest and hard hat.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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
They lived at first in crude lean-tos in the ruins of Hampton, burned by its own residents rather than leave it to the Union.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2019
Of that, about 16,000 live in cars and RVs, and about 11,000 live in tents or lean-tos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2019
Those sheds looked to Paul and Rex just like the lean-tos made back home by our own Navajo people.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
