Quonset hut

Example Sentences

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The winery’s centerpiece is a Quonset hut, once a tractor and farm equipment storage shed turned into a rustic chic event space.

From Seattle Times • May 18, 2024

Tom, who refers to himself as “The Surf God” and eschews Mindy’s bourgeois crowd as “kooks,” convinces Ginger to camp in his sand-bound Quonset hut and steal food for him as he pursues dead-end schemes.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023

At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, there are approximately 76,000 containers of ethanol specimens, mostly stored in a World War-II-era Quonset hut, which is made from corrugated steel and is uninsulated.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2023

I remember standing in the back of the Quonset hut that was the Masters press building and seeing Dan pause from his typewriter and slowly look around the room.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 6, 2020

We walked around the Quonset hut, through the rows of adult trees, and out to the baby trees—the Golden Dawn tangerines.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor