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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