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
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
Sleeping in a lean-to on the property, Bran is made from adolescence onward to earn her keep by helping take care of the plants.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
Palmer further imagined that Beans lived by himself in a lean-to, or even better, a cave, a hole, down by the creek.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
By Tuesday, more bamboo and tarpaulins had been brought into the camp, to build new shelters for people crowding under poles and lean-tos.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
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
It was designed to be unfinished, so that lean-tos could jut out as they were needed.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
