Examples Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of wickiup
Part tipi, part wickiup, and influenced by many architectural styles, a round lodge can block wind, rain, cold, and sun.
—
Popular Science, 28 May 2020
The wickiup is a bit like a small tipi made from poles, brush and vegetation.
—Popular Science, 28 May 2020
Popular Science, 28 May 2020
The wickiup is a bit like a small tipi made from poles, brush and vegetation.
—Popular Science, 28 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wickiup
Noun
-
Other kinds of algorithms underlie the repeating sequences of bent wood arcs that make up Native American wigwams, canoes and cradles.Audrey G. Bennett, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2023
-
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt receives a miniature wigwam at a Boy Scout camp in New York State in 1933.NBC news, NBC news, 19 Apr. 2023
Noun
-
Inna and her family decided to drive to another village about 60 miles away, where Inna's grandparents had a tiny old hut.Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
-
Known for not being precious on set, Winslet illustrates this to Dominus by being interviewed for hours in a chilly beach hut on the English coast (Winslet’s idea).Longreads, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
-
Visitors get around the island by foot or on golf carts, and there are a smattering of seafood shacks and souvenir shops.Nicholas DeRenzo, AFAR Media, 6 Jan. 2025
-
The worst damage was to the informal settlements and shacks that are found across Mayotte, Bieuville said.Lex Harvey, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
-
The school’s rodeo grounds are pocked with prairie dog holes, and roads to the mobile home park and hogans that house employees are mostly unpaved.Matt Krupnick, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2024
-
The Navajo elder lives in a hogan, a traditional home, built for him by neighbors in Wide Ruins, a remote town of 175 people in northeastern Arizona, about 250 miles from Phoenix.Alex Rhoades, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2024
Noun
-
The university was founded in 1881 in a one-room shanty by Dr. Booker T. Washington and Lewis Adams, who had been enslaved, the school website says.John Bacon, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
-
Few people could be seen on Wednesday in the usually overcrowded shanty towns where many immigrants live, the prefecture office said, while the island’s maternity ward, which usually sees one birth per hour, was operating at below normal levels.Reuters, CNN, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
-
Well nuclear is back, because AI needs it, not because peasants risk freezing in their hovels.Clem Chambers, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
-
Many rising comedians live in hovels, but not Zarna Garg, who recently opened for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on their national comedy tour.Sheila Yasmin Marikar, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
Noun
-
The website sees about 300 million visits per day across the globe buying everything from kitchen utensils to circuit boards to gardening sheds.Newsweek, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
-
In the end, both efforts were noble, but failed to address the problem efficiently in the tiny house case or legally in the case of the sheds.Roger Valdez, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
-
The money is going toward meals, toiletries, gear and replacing a shower facility at one of the camps, Lewis said.Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
-
But years later, in 1988, her husband was killed in another round of fighting in the camp.Lauren Frayer, NPR, 18 Jan. 2025
Thesaurus Entries Near wickiup
Cite this Entry
“Wickiup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wickiup. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share