SHANTY in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for SHANTY, such as:

1. They were scarecrows in a shanty town.
2. Both the church and the shanty were in about as bad condition as was possible.
3. She hated herself for it, but she hoped that no one saw her go into the Bjornstam shanty.
4. For John, it had been a long, hard pull to get things started in the rickety old shanty that sheltered his school.
5. He had, with Carol's help, made his shanty over into a cottage with white curtains and a canary and a chintz chair.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHANTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shanty
 n.  jaunty; showy
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  A one-room shanty of boards recently covered with rough stucco.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  She looked doubtfully at him, at the low shanty, the yard that was littered with cord-wood, moldy planks, a hoopless wash-tub.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  With a shaky, "Well, just a moment, to warm my nose," she glanced down the street to make sure that she was not spied on, and bolted toward the shanty.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  He had, with Carol's help, made his shanty over into a cottage with white curtains and a canary and a chintz chair.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  She hated herself for it, but she hoped that no one saw her go into the Bjornstam shanty.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  It plays at cards on greasy oil-cloth in a shanty, and does not know that prophets are walking and talking on the terrace.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  It was a roving shanty, the cabin of a land schooner, with black oilcloth seats along the side, and for desk, a pine board to be let down on hinges.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  They were scarecrows in a shanty town.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  To Aniele's house, in back of the yards, was a good two miles; the distance had never seemed longer to Jurgis, and when he saw the familiar dingy-gray shanty his heart was beating fast.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
10  He started down the track, and when he was past the gate-keeper's shanty he sprang forward and swung himself on to one of the cars.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
11  In this recess lies concealed a little shanty which leans against the portion of the ruin which has remained standing.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
12  When these men were re-united, one of them lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered the enclosure in which the shanty stood.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
13  Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's absence.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
14  For John, it had been a long, hard pull to get things started in the rickety old shanty that sheltered his school.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIII
15  Both the church and the shanty were in about as bad condition as was possible.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII.
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