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shanty - use in sentences
Converse of object
- sing: The guy even sings a sea shanty about his Grandad's love rival.
Adjective modifier
- little: The busting shells were quite close enough to us and made a terrific din and showered pieces of metal over our little shanty.
- wooden: For the most part the boomers are living in dug-outs, or sod houses, with some rough wooden shanties and many tents.
- several: He also has the words of several sea shanties.
Modifies a noun
- dweller: The shanty town dwellers were awakened with the thunder of revolution too.
- town: For example, there is much poverty in India, with shanty towns where disease is rife.
- dwelling: It is a well planned but shabby town surrounded by the shanty dwellings of displaced desert nomads.
- settlement: Sao Paulo, Brazil is an example of a city with a large area of shanty settlements or favelas.
- house: Shanty Town Project We, the year seven's were asked to build a shanty house following our resent studies on shantytowns in Nairobi.
- area: It was citizen involvement in this process that resulted in extended service coverage to the shanty areas of Porto Alegre.
Noun used with modifier
- sea: The guy even sings a sea shanty about his Grandad's love rival.
- one-room: In the quiet, one-room shanty, the clatter of metal on metal sounded like freight cars coupling as she chambered a bullet.
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