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a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling smoke rose from a fisherman's hut on the shore of the lake

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Recent Examples of hut The hut serves classic comfort food starting at breakfast, while lunch offers skiers and riders sandwiches, soups, and plenty of chili. Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2025 The short trail passes faithful re-creations of domed huts and paperbark canoes, offering a glimpse of how the Indigenous Needwonnee people lived and cultivated the land. Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2025 Some of the 33 rooms in the 5-star Auberge de la Maison are inspired by real mountain huts while others have a more romantic style. Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025 Why not, say, put up inexpensive Quonset huts on government land, as was quickly done at Camp Pendleton early in World War II to house 1,000 military families? U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hut
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Noun
  • And 95-year-old David Schecter survived not one, but two extermination camps.
    Lee Cowan, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2025
  • But what played out next within Alpine’s camp was not discussed with Komatsu.
    Madeline Coleman, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In the past, the camp, called San Vicente, consisted of just a few shacks in a muddy expanse, and officials often kept migrants penned inside.
    Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The property also has a sugar shack with two 20,000-gallon silos to hold the sap.
    Peter Baugh, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Either way, that seems part of the driving force that compels her to get to the recording studio in the cabin and start channeling Kate Bush.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
  • In the video -- obtained exclusively by ABC News -- passengers can be seen hanging upside down in the cabin, being held into their seats dangling only by their seatbelts.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2025

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“Hut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hut. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.

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