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46 example sentences for HOVEL, such as:

1. What Marius now beheld was a hovel.
2. This hovel was only one story high.
3. Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel.
4. Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel.
5. There was no bread in the hovel, but there was still tobacco.

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 Meanings and Examples of HOVEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hovel
 n.  small or simply constructed dwelling; small, wretched house
Classic Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble public house, some hovel, however lowly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
2  The lower town, in which he lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: he constructed two, one for girls, the other for boys.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
3  Satan must have occasionally crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thenardier dwelt, and have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
4  This hovel was only one story high.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
5  The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she thought Jean Valjean handsome, just as she thought the hovel pretty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
6  Week followed week; these two beings led a happy life in that hovel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
7  One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the uninhabited compartments of the hovel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT
8  I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, in a corner which no one ever looks into.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL
9  The chamber which the Jondrettes inhabited in the Gorbeau hovel was the last at the end of the corridor.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
10  What Marius now beheld was a hovel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
11  There was no bread in the hovel, but there was still tobacco.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
12  Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL
13  The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering it the effect produced on entering a cellar.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING
14  Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder Jondrette girl following him through the corridor.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS
15  Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS
Example Sentence:
1  He wondered how poor people could stand living in such a hovel.