Примери за shack

• Shack is the period after the harvest when there was a right to graze the newly harvested ground.

• He lived in a tumbledown shack and had survived on a small payment that he received after the accident and by visiting soup kitchens.

• Until recently, few houses had been built to last, but now concrete block structures are replacing wooden and wattle-and-daub houses and shacks.

• To the north, on the building frontier, there is a line of huts and shacks.

• Three-in-ten of their households occupied a shack and one-tenth had no toilet.

• I know of grandmothers who have to live in a back-garden shack.

• Many of the latter were housed for extended periods in transit camps of tents or shacks.

• The first law of amnesty for already built gecekondu (shacks built "overnight") enacted in 194950 was followed by similar pieces of legislation under successive governments.

• There we lived in a shack, a sort of house made just to shelter us.

• On the back cover is a photograph of another kind of home - a squatter shack, with an old car parked outside.

• One of their reasons for swapping a peaceful rural area for a filthy shack in an extremely violent partly urban environment is the lack of healthcare services in their homeland.

• We may expect shacks, and tin roofs, and all kinds of monstrosities perpetrated in some of the most beautiful parts of the country.

• Many of these plots are small and ill-shaped; they have on them little shacks and the roads are only cart tracks.

• If one wants a cup of tea one goes to an old shack covered with a tin roof and stands on cinders.

• I have been in some of these sheds or shacks which have been substituted for what were formerly well-built public houses.