shanty
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But under million-dollar luxury apartments chilled by whirling air conditioners, tenants in one of Seoul's last shanty towns suffer headaches in the savage heat.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Despite the archaic language, it has the simplicity of a sea shanty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The blaze broke out in the early hours of the morning in Guryong village, often described as one of the South Korean capital's last remaining shanty towns.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
Raphinha was raised in the relentless, grinding poverty seen across the sprawling shanty towns that litter the landscape in and around the neighbourhood of Restinga in the city of Porto Alegre.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025
By the time the water had left the yard and street, most of our downstairs, though smelling more like a crab shanty than a proper house, was at least cleaned out.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
The programme will conclude with the traditional medley of sea shanties, Pomp and Circumstance and Auld Lang Syne.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
Earlier this week, Typhoon Kalmaegi sent floodwaters rushing through the towns and cities of Cebu province, sweeping away cars, riverside shanties and massive shipping containers.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025
He sang sea shanties, determined to stay upbeat.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
Wise had picked up two or three CDs of sea shanties, along with an album of barrel organ tunes, for inspiration.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
I expected to see a grand building like the government offices in Umtata, but the Crown Mine offices were rusted tin shanties on the face of the mine.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
I shantied for a week with Crop, under the shadow of Mount Marcy.
From Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond
We shantied together on the Muddywaski, and a better man than John Burton never rode a log in the Ottaway country, which is sayin’ a good deal.
From The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead
They shantied on the outlet, just at the foot of the lake, below the high rocky bluff round which the little bay there sweeps.
From Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond
Alistair Beaton's script is not so much a play as a series of sketches; Anthony Neilson's production is remorselessly larky, with lots of arch posturing and yo-ho-ho shantying.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2010
He had been working his farm for a spell and had gone back reluctantly to shantying because he needed the money in a slack season.
From Children of the Tenements by C. M. (Charles Mark) Relyea
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