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hovel - use in sentences
Converse of object
- enter: The Tour will not require you to enter a Hovel that is inhabited.
- buy: The choices are between getting into punishing debt; buying a hovel; living with relatives or renting for the forseeable future.
- build: They are crammed with poor families, while their gardens have vanished under hastily built hovels.
Noun used with modifier
- one-room: So how did a one-room hovel become today's desirable country cottage?
- kiln: Sharpe's Pottery is a very rare survival of an early 19th century pottery, with its original kiln hovel.
Adjective modifier
- wretched: She lives in a wretched, filthy hovel with two grown up daughters whom she will not suffer to work or learn anything.
- little: He told one rich convert, ` Go and see the sick in their own poor little hovels.
- miserable: The fortified castle and the miserable hovel seem to have been then the almost only distinction of dwellings.
- mere: Private enterprise had provided " mere hovels - jerry built, insanitary, tightly crammed rows of houses " .
- rat-infested: The family lives in a rat-infested, decrepit hovel.
- wooden: Next to the wooden hovels of the past you have the modern skyscraper of the Communist regime.
Preposition: in
- town: Old Meg You live in a hovel in the town.
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