Example sentences for: shacks

How can you use “shacks” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Once dominated by a row of flimsy wooden restaurants called chiringuitos (shacks), the area was virtually rebuilt in preparation for the 1992 Olympics.

  • Very soon he was touring the country, bringing back new ideas about line and volume, as in Telegraph Poles, Texas (1915): some stripped trees leaning over, bearing aloft a neat grid of wires, towering over flatland and stumpy shacks.

  • Fishing is the main way people make a living here — between mangrove outcrops are many small shacks with boats tied up to rickety wooden jetties.

  • A number of colorful shacks line the approach road where you can buy conch and fried fish, always fresh and always delicious.

  • An uncontrollable fire devoured a whole city of squatters’ shacks in Kowloon; 50,000 refugees were deprived of shelter.


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