How To Use Lean-to In A Sentence
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While surveying the interior architecture of a lean-to connected to the salt-box section of the house, we noticed a small trap door in the ceiling of a closet.
Remembering Africa Under the Eaves
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The lean-tos provide emergency shelter and mountain tops should be marked to prevent people from damaging the mountaintops looking for the summit.
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Year round, it was always just airish enough to keep the reptile population in her lean-to down to a bare minimum, and with the deck chairs she had sitting around her card table, it was easy not even to take notice of them, so to speak.
DEFILEMENT OUTSIDE OF HEAVEN, TWO MILES
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With some of the spare lumber, Shem and Japheth had set up a little lean-to next to the winepress and were sipping Mesopotamian merlot in the shade.
The Arks What Weren't
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It has 25 tent/trailer sites and 37 lean-tos, and record-catching trout and salmon fishing.
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Oftentimes lean-tos are rented only for gear storage and/or cooking in inclement weather.
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There is a large fireplace in the sitting room and a good supply of logs in the lean-to behind the outhouse.
CHAMELEON
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Even a lean-to needs two uprights and a crosspiece.
Fire The Sky
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Every inch of the haymow and the lean-to are now neatly stacked and plugged with small bales of both alfalfa and grass hay.
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To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuelhouse.
The Return of the Native
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They needed to build a lean-to shelter, dry their possessions, and repack their canoe for the rest of their journey.
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The girl was not there; but by the gate into the olive-yard, where there was a lean-to shed for tools, they found her sitting on a cask, whittling a piece of wood and talking to a curly-headed little contadino.
Tales from Many Sources Vol. V
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He had spent the last two days lost in the Sierra Nevada mountains enduring subfreezing temperatures, with only a crudely built lean-to shelter and no food.
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So we've had people here for quite a while living in huts, lean-tos, wood cabins and split-level duplexes with Italian marble counters.
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It was a three-sided adobe brick lean-to covered with red clay tile shingles laid over wooden rafters.
Toyita grows flowers for the Virgin of Talpa
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It's spring, and there is deep purple tumbling down my lean-to wall in a blaze of colour.
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Marcel's Renault 4 saloon was still padlocked inside the garage, a rotten tin-roofed lean-to which hung off the side of the barn.
WHITE LIES
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In towns and cities, housing ranges from European-style villas to make-shift huts and lean-tos (rakuba).
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The central glasshouse had two lean-to hothouses, one dry for cacti, the other humid for tropical plants.
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He fashioned a crude lean-to out of twigs and pitch, ensnared wild game in a hand-made wooden trap, and divined the coveted secret of fire.
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They had a hotplate on their covered balcony for cooking and a little lean-to with a hole in the floor for a washroom.
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Today there are 50 families living on the same stretch of pavement where she had erected a lean-to with tarpaulin in the early 1980s.
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Six-foot stalks of soybeans are piled in lean-tos and tepees along a rutted dirt road.
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And collecting bedding thrown about by the hurricane force winds, pulling the mattresses under the lean-to's and hanging the bedding up to dry out of the drizzle and rain that is expected worldwide.
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Those ominous vines grew in profusion, twisting in dense layers over the lean-to, as if defensively, and the entire platform was surrounded by beasties—iguanas, frogs, snakes, deer mice, and coatimundi made up a creeping moat.
Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
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Outhouses are located at many lean-tos and should be used when available.
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So we've had people here for quite a while living in huts, lean-tos, wood cabins and split-level duplexes with Italian marble counters.
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Two small camping areas contain a total of 16 sites and three lean-tos, flush toilets and hot showers.
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The first leisure visitors did so under the guise of hunting and normally camped in lean-tos or tents.
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There were five lean-to shelters there, each of which slept up to six people.
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The place looked comfortable enough -- a small, unpainted, two-room affair, with a lean-to at the back for a kitchen, a porch added only the preceding spring, so that milord might have a view of the thymy valley below, with its green fields and distant hills, while he smoked and meditated.
Ida Hauchawout
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Winter was coming, and his lean-to shelter would be no protection against that.
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Bronwen was brewing a nettle tea in the lean-to area where the cooking and the washing took place.
AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
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Canvas tents and hastily assembled lean-tos disappeared in favor of nylon tents complete with metal poles and nylon stakes.
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But the lean-tos on the lake that first night were filled, so we just put in at a lake campsite, a small beach with a clearing on a hill immediately behind it.
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The central glasshouse had two lean-to hothouses, one dry for cacti, the other humid for tropical plants.
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Every few hours, under hundreds of shanty tents and lean-tos scattered across the hills, they pour mercury from metal flasks into soil that they have dragged in sacks down rutted tracks behind bullocks.
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He trotted back to their improvised camp just as Garin hauled himself out from under the lean-to.
A TIME OF WAR
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Some incorporated timber-framed lean-to houses, and the central open space could accommodate livestock.
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During the summer months the few lean-tos available are often occupied, so it's wise to bring a tent.
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One big advantage of the lean-to greenhouse is that you can connect it to your home by means of a communicating door.
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Around in back, a tray sat in the empty wood lean-to built under the eaves of the garage.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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He wiped moisture from his muzzle and ducked back under the meagre cover his crude lean-to offered.
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Before houses, apartments, mobile homes, castles, igloos, thatched huts, lean-tos, we had caves - a bit draftier, but we got by just the same.
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From among a cluster of shacks and lean-to's and concrete outhouses, clinging to the central building like barnacles on an oyster, you could see the outlines of what had once been a magnificent palace.
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I reached his ramshackle lean-to, promptly leaned against my usual beam and opened the folded papers.
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A long run of narrow lean-tos against the north wall was probably built around 1828 and included a heated ‘stove’ at one end and a vinery at the other.
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Her father took her camping in the Adirondacks one summer in the 1970s[Sentence dictionary], and behind the lean-to at their campsite in the middle of a seemingly pristine forest they discovered a small open-air dump.
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The flames still lifted from the hippies "log fire, but they were asleep in their shanties and lean-to huts.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Camping above 3,500 feet is permitted only in lean-tos or designated sites.
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The basic points to remember when building a lean-to green house is location and ventilation.
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Canvas tents and hastily assembled lean-tos disappeared in favor of nylon tents complete with metal poles and nylon stakes.
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But instead of going to his horse, he followed what she called the ravine—really a trickle of muddy water that flowed past the shack and down toward another gully between the rock formations … in which, Reilly saw after only a little climbing, there sat a lean-to made of sticks, peat, and rock.
LADY of SKYE
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an inexpertly constructed lean-to
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A lean-to mudroom dominated the space, and the yard consisted of concrete and turfgrass bordered by chain-link and wooden fencing.
Globe and Mail
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She'd found plenty of driftwood and deadfalls in the vicinity of the gazebo, enough to construct a crude lean-to on the creek bank.
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The central glasshouse had two lean-to hothouses, one dry for cacti, the other humid for tropical plants.
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This 365-acre state park in the Taconic Mountains is home to 66 campsites including 10 lean-tos.
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Most lean-tos still have a fire place close to the front for cooking and night time cheer.
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She'd found plenty of driftwood and deadfalls in the vicinity of the gazebo, enough to construct a crude lean-to on the creek bank.
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If you haven't even got room for a single lean-to garage, you could always consider building a carport.
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Half of it has been pulled down to build a staircase, and the low casement windows are blocked by a lean-to coalshed, making the room so dark that I could barely see the plaster modelling of the wall.
Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland
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Year round camping includes tent sites, lean-tos, and some cabins with varying facilities.
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Another highlight is the kitchen, which replaced what Pickell called a lanai or lean-to that was the family room and connection to the pool room.
The Seattle Times