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Recent Examples of hovels
During the rainy season, their hovels turned into hovels on stilts.
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Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hovels
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Reservations can only be made over the phone, and huts are equipped with cook stoves, wood stoves, and bunks.—
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Punch holes in the sides of Styrofoam huts or vinyl covers if needed.—
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Here is the match schedule for games in KC, as well as information about tickets, the FIFA fan fest, team base camps and area transportation.—
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A couple of 2025 winners bring healing through free summer camps for kids with a parent with cancer.—
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Most of Goma is a warren of improvised housing, with tin shacks for the poorest and cinder-block huts for those a little better off.—
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The bike and pedestrian paths that weave through the riparian corridor below provided access to a neighborhood of tents and shacks, a leafy suburb of the Crash Zone known as the Enchanted Forest.—
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“Hovels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hovels. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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