SHACK in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for SHACK, such as:

1. They dismounted at Jack Elder's shack.
2. She stepped over to the cook shack and looked in.
3. The story of Leslie, the woman who was forced to leave her nice home and live in a shack, is also very inspiring.
4. Johnnie Gallegher was standing in the doorway of the miserable shack that served as cook room for the little lumber camp.
5. There was something sinister about this camp with its ugly shacks, something which had not been here when Hugh Elsing had it.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHACK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shack
 n.  small, crudely built cabin
Classic Sentence:
1  Johnnie Gallegher was standing in the doorway of the miserable shack that served as cook room for the little lumber camp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
2  Sitting on a log in front of the slab-sided shack that was their sleeping quarters were four of the five convicts Scarlett had apportioned to Johnnie's mill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
3  She stepped over to the cook shack and looked in.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
4  Scarlett's eyes went unwillingly to the miserable group gnawing on the ham and she thought of the sick man lying in the windy shack.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  In a shack of thin boards covered with tar-paper she saw the washerwoman, Mrs. Steinhof, working in gray steam.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  Before a tar-paper shack, at a gateless gate, a man in rough brown dogskin coat and black plush cap with lappets was watching her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  They dismounted at Jack Elder's shack.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  He had saved money, had quit Elder's planing-mill and started a dairy on a vacant lot near his shack.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  In the spring he had built a two-room addition to his shack.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  The original one-room shack was now a living-room, with the phonograph, a genuine leather-upholstered golden-oak rocker, and a picture of Governor John Johnson.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  We struck it mighty lucky; there was going to be a circus there that afternoon, and the country people was already beginning to come in, in all kinds of old shackly wagons, and on horses.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI.
12  Miss Scarlett, they're living in tents and shacks and log cabins and doubling up six and seven families in the few houses still standing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  There was something sinister about this camp with its ugly shacks, something which had not been here when Hugh Elsing had it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
Example Sentence:
1  The story of Leslie, the woman who was forced to leave her nice home and live in a shack, is also very inspiring.
2  Rusted, broken-down cars in its yard, trash piled up on the porch, tar paper peeling from the roof, the shack was the picture of squalor.