Examples of 'shanty' in a sentence

Meaning of "shanty"

shanty (noun) - a simple, poorly built and often small house or dwelling, typically associated with a low socio-economic status. The term can also refer to a traditional work song sung by sailors or laborers, typically with a call-and-response structure, while performing tasks like hauling ropes or lifting heavy objects
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  • A roughly-built hut or cabin.
  • A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
  • An unlicensed pub.
  • Living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent.

How to use "shanty" in a sentence

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The shanty towns were all totally destroyed.
Here be a jaunty sea shanty from me boyhood.
Maybe it will be easier to explain in a pirate shanty.
I need to repair my shanty for the monsoon.
I assume you are referring to the sea shanty.
Can you see the shanty up there.
Only difference is we have got a bigger shanty.
So they have a phone in a shanty outside somewhere.
Thank you for stopping by our shanty.
Some live in shanty towns or have no fixed abode.
The shacks are concentrated in a number of shanty towns.
We are going to have a shanty town here in no time.
The battery is fused with the shanty.
Back then the shanty town was full of immigrants.
It was the first start of the shanty town판자촌.

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Shanty towns and ghettos were a reality in some regions.
Creating your own palace in the shanty.
Crush the shanty and recycle the alloys.
Little black girl living in a shanty in some.
I went to that shanty you calling a house.
Along with the portable shanty town.
That in a shanty we do not have things we need because.
As you march along sing a shanty song.
These shanty towns are refused access to basic infrastructure.
I lived on a beach between two shanty towns.
The shanty by the ironworks.
Dating with the dark shanty agatha.
Shanty folk do not want me.
Rory and me lived in a shanty camp under a bridge.
Illustrated account of the sea shanty.
I will go up and get shanty with the fellas.
While running he comes in front of a shanty.
We were at the sea shanty with the sullivans.
Maybe we should sing a sea shanty.
Abby was found in a shanty town as well.
We should totally sing a sea shanty.
I see this little shanty townhouse has not changed.
The man is screaming inside his shanty abode.
In his subsequent shanty collections he used this spelling consistently.
Surveying and legalization shanty towns.
They built a shanty and began clearing the land.
Were living in makeshift accommodation such as a shanty or converted garage.
A shanty town built by the unemployed during the depression.
You are going to get rid of that shanty irish routine.
Our little shanty town was extremely inconvenient for the elderly.
Rather than living in this shanty.
Many IDPs are forced to live in shanty villages or dilapidated buildings.
Her truth lies hidden in their sea shanty.
And later one of the last shanty towns was established.
My life is gonna consist of living in a shanty.

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