How To Use Shack In A Sentence

There was no mail coach -- no driver in scarlet -- no mail guard -- no passengers, but only a ramshackle iron mail cart -- a "postboy" as driver and carrying no arms. The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time
In a corner, shackled and chained, was a grey mass.
I crossed a railroad overpass and reached a bunch of shacks where two highways forked off, both for Denver.
On the far left, the lead hanger runs the belt by pushing a lever with his knee and hangs the first shackle.
Following his defiance, KSM was subjected to a number of coercive interrogation techniques besides being waterboarded the 183 times: he was kept up for seven and a half days straight while diapered and shackled, and he was told that his kids, who were now being held in American custody, would be killed. The Longest War

They then shack up with other men who do not work and whose motives are sometimes less than pure. Times, Sunday Times
Pictures like "Snoball," which portrays a snow-cone shack with a yellow topped cone is softened by his gentle sense of humor: it is almost a "Pop" painting. John Seed: Rod Penner: Rust on Poles, Crumbling Asphalt, Light Hitting the Grass (PHOTOS)
It is too bad that we often put readers, ordained and lay, in costumes that shackle the creative reading of texts.
As he was walking past a ship chandler's shop, he was shocked to see handcuffs, leg shackles, and thumbscrews in the window.
FORGET the image of an old wooden shack that is home to rusty bikes and spiders. The Sun
The squalid conditions in the shack settlements drive many to despair. Times, Sunday Times
Her house is a shack made of sticks, black plastic and a few sheets of tin.
They grew wealthy overnight and had a beautiful little opera house built in the midst of their shacks on the steep slope.
They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
She ran forward and quickly undid the shackles on his wrists and ankles.
We follow the sandy road that was once the sea and pause by a huddle of weather-beaten shacks.
A subject race, dragooned by force for centuries, has shaken off the last of its shackles.
Then he would walk before her back to the stable, loop the chain through the hasp and fasten with his own hands the shackle. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
India, on the other hand, has progressively unshackled its economy from bureaucratic controls since 1991 to become one of the fastest growing economies with an average growth rate of over six percent in recent years.
The next battle will be to get inside the small wooden shack that serves as the check-in counter. Times, Sunday Times
There was no indoor tennis centre, just ramshackle old council courts and nowhere to have lessons. Times, Sunday Times
Then he repaired to a blacksmith, after stripping her and her damsels of their silken apparel and clothing them in raiment of hair-cloth, and bade him make three pairs of iron shackles. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
A makeshift wooden bridge is the only access to the ramshackle dwelling leading from the road.
In other words, researchers at a typical site directly observe one killing every seven years. in a response to Sussman and Marshack, published in the same volume as their analysis, that chimpanzee coalitionary killings are "certainly rare. Scientific American
It is immoral and absurd to shackle all citizens because of the feared imprudence or disastrous luck of a tiny percentage.
On the last night in Kweilin, 550 barracks and shacks were blown up. The Last Empress
She saw Avery in the prison yard hanging from the shackles on his wrists.
It stood out like the Taj Mahal in a trailer camp as it was surrounded by what can only be described as windowless hovels and wooden shacks.
Deep gullies run between the ramshackle dirt houses carrying away sewage in the open.
The opposition criticized the government's ramshackle economic policies.
We are all shackled to reality but free to dream of the great escape. Times, Sunday Times
Those two will only get better now the shackles have been taken off by the Tottenham star. The Sun
From afar the shanty towns resembled ramshackle collections of matchboxes.
Now, a tenement is not a building that is stuck up in a ramshackle way on one of the streets in the lowest ward of the city. Problems of Population
More so due to being free from the shackles of domestic unrest. The Sun
There is no use in seeing the parlous situation of the Aboriginal community as requiring increased funding. We first have to unshackle ourselves from much of the confusion that prevails.
The men roughly pulled Prudence and the others from the wagon and put cast iron shackles around their wrists, attaching them to the cart so they wouldn't get away.
They will raise a stink about local dhabas going out of business due to competition from Nestle shacks, and earn ‘Pro-Poor’ labels.
A large proportion are children who have barely obtained rudimentary education and live in shacks without basic amenities.
From now on, these items will be included in the existing export ban of leg irons, shackles and gang chains.
Various departments inhabit a ramshackle collection of buildings up and down Holloway Road, ranging through arts and crafts, neo-Georgian, brutalism and postmodernist junk.
Other freshman classes have exerted a much more profound immediate influence, though in fairness some of the guys this year were shackled by the presence of more experienced players ahead of them who would have been difficult to unseat from the lineup. Top newcomer? John Wall runs away from a talented field
About 100 kilometres away from the boma, a bare-footed lad trudged his way to a ramshackle school in Luumbo village down in the Gwembe valley.
He has taken the shackles off. The Sun
Both are subject to the shackle, which is imposed as a criminal penalty, or by the power of sergeants and commanders. Yoani Sanchez: The Squalor of Our Prisons Mirrors the Perverted Face of Our Justice [VIDEO]
We built a small Hartmann - Shack wavefront sensor for measuring atmospheric disturbance characteristics.
The shack was filled with surfboards and a few odd skim boards.
Retailer Radio Shack said it was also seeing increased demand for two-way radios, emergency batteries and torches.
I checked the shackles that held the Monster to its slab, giving it a sharp cuff as it lashed out with its wicked needle-thin teeth at my face, slobber and foam flying from its mouth.
For once in her life she didn't feel shackled and chained.
Are we going to be living in some small, dinky shack with no running water and a cast iron cauldron for cooking?
She was swaying from side to side and the men unshackled her from the ceiling and dragged her to a metallic chair, bolted to the floor.
The boys made a shack out of the old boards in the backyard.
Roberts meant a lot to a vast audience of Pentecostals, those believers ridiculed - by atheists, agnostics and mainstream religions alike - as backwater snake charmers, poor, uneducated serfs lucky to scrape up enough money to pay the rent on the shack and procure "vittles" for Sunday dinner. Lonestartimes.com
Men, women and children are no longershakledshackled, put on the auction block and sold like prize cattle to the highest bidder.
The airport terminal was a tin-roofed shack that received just one international flight.
The peasant family is cramped tightly into a small makeshift shack squatter slum.
The appropriate out - of - controlness started on a ramshackle ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The second lot is a collection of 302 photographs, purchased for £2,500, from Emily Shackleton's family album.
A West Germany firmly shackled to this impossibilist dogma would never be able to do a deal with the Soviet Union, such as leaving Nato in return for reunification. London Review of Books
On those boats that have internal halyards, all halyards (except, again, the main) should be disconnected from the deck and hauled through until the shackles are two-blocked at the masthead.
Professor David and R. Priestley, the geologists of Shackleton's expedition, refer to Ferrar's and Prior's description of the foundation rocks, and state that according to their own investigations the foundation rocks consist of banded gneis, gneissic granite, grano-diorite, and diorite rich in sphene, besides coarse crystalline limestone as enclosures in the gneiss. The South Pole~ Fram Expedition Geology
En route we pass a number of wooden shacks. The Sun
In fact, where Philby is concerned, I actually suspect the guy was a fascist sympathiser, hence his efforts to thwart any attempt on Franco’s life (when he was in an excellent position to do so, shacked up with an actress in Salamanca). Philby Jag « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
Well the poor mutt ran away howling in pain and agony and he scampered shiveringly to a refuge in a deserted shack.
The shackles of my physical body had faded away and instead I was free and floating above it, surrounded by a bright white light. The Sun
Look you, Herr Doctor: months we have been on this cruise, yes, more than three months out of Heligoland, penned together in this ramshackle stinkpot, or isolated here in this God-forgotten hole, seeing nothing of life, hearing nothing of the world but what little the radio tells us -- sick of the very sight of one another's faces! The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf
Luciano Becchio and Max Gradel had cancelled out Jason Shackell's early opener but Matthew Hill equalised for Barnsley early in the second half and Leeds had Bradley Johnson sent off on 52 minutes for a second bookable offence. Aaron Ramsey strikes to help Cardiff end Leicester's unbeaten run
My zakat forces me to unshackle myself from my money, time, and efforts and places them towards good.
Our problem has been unshackling ourselves from the idea of empire.
In other words, the new scripts do not require that you leave behind everything and move into a tipi or grass shack as your indigenous ancestors once lived.
The Blunt family home was a large, ramshackle house with an untended and brambly garden.
Freed from the shackles of words and dialects, silent cinema spoke a universal language that all nations and all classes could understand.
He has taken the shackles off. The Sun
Clinton Robert AVERY, (NZL) Team RadioShack, at 0 37. 2010 Tour of Denmark results, stage 1
My favourite direction: 'You pass a ramshackle old farm with a very unfriendly dog but it is normally chained up. The Sun
It was a regular antheap all the way in, with the miners crawling over the tree-clad slopes, and the ceaseless thump of picks and scrape of shovels and ring of axes, and ramshackle huts and shanties and sluice-boxes everywhere, with dirty bearded fellows in slouch hats and galluses cussing and burrowing, and claim signs all along Sweetheart Mine, Crossbone Diggings, Damyereyes Gulch, and the like. Isabelle
He grabbed the chain that was binding Beth to him (though he wanted nothing better than to unshackle her), and he tried to push his way through the thick mob.
Older Palaeozoic rocks are represented by greenish grey slates from the sides of the Beardmore glacier and by radiolarian cherts; but the most widespread of the sedimentary rocks occurring in vast beds in the mountain faces is that named by Ferrar the Beacon sandstones, which in the far south Shackleton found to be banded with seams of shale and coal amongst which a fossil occurred which has been identified as coniferous wood and suggests that the place of the formation is Lower Carboniferous or perhaps Upper Devonian. Perspective of Antarctica in 1911
This dependence is absolute, despotic; but it unshackles as well. Joseph Brodsky - Nobel Lecture
You see, those wide-open spaces streaking past when you're rattling about on the train are ramshackle urban Edens.
He constantly pondered upon the possibilities through which his friend might be freed from the shackles that bound him to the effeminate serfdom of idleness; but the magic that could unrivet those fetters had not yet been revealed. Fairy Fingers A Novel
After all, if they hadn't, they would not have believed the judge and prosecutor would stoop to the level of shackling a first-grader.
The article reported that the girl was detained in handcuffs and shackles.
This holds that France is a secular society free from religious shackles and underpinned by universal values. Times, Sunday Times
Conservation officers get the beasts to trample shacks on protected forest land in the Assam region, where hilly terrain makes bulldozers impractical. The Sun
But there was never a chance, never a moment, when he might run free of a cage about him, of the walls of a room restricting him, of a chain shackled to the collar about his throat. CHAPTER XXXII
On the road we had huge meals at roadside tin shacks run by plump maidens. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Customer service at this shack included a classy belch and the most obnoxious and pushy service of the night.
Shackleton and his 28-man crew waited, immobilized, in the hope that the ice would eventually thaw, but after ten months the ship was destroyed by ice pressure.
Though the next eruption will likely follow a similar path, thousands of homes, shacks of hand-hewn eucalyptus boards and sheet-metal roofs, have been built directly atop the old flow.
The shackles had fallen away and reflected the glow of the man's flaming hair.
A large colour photograph from his shack dweller series has been bleached of its content, the sitter a vague outline, a ghostly presence leached from the scene.
Mr Shackleton remembered his attacker was wearing a navy blue crew-neck sweater with a badge emblem and red writing on it.
There are more than 12,000 of these ramshackle little buildings across the island. The Sun
The works, while clear, are also ambiguous; a number look ramshackle, jerry-built, jumbled - even chaotic.
He came back with a pair of shackles and put them round my legs. Times, Sunday Times
From now on, these items will be included in the existing export ban of leg irons, shackles and gang chains.
The old man suddenly grinned and continued about his work, unshackling us from each other.
Method: Human symbiote body shackled to a concrete wall with uninterrupted exposure. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Suddenly, the camera swings around or zooms out from the view of a temple, or a palace, or some tumble-down shack, to reveal the airport, superhighway, or other emblem of modernity next door.
He's in a shack on the eastern docks in Newport City.
Cheap and cheerful in a neighbourhood that's full of life, with ramshackle old rum shacks and popular picnic areas. Times, Sunday Times
He relinquished this perk as he himself prefers to live with his large family in a shack in the location.
They joined with a ramshackle alliance of other rebels.
There were all these intricate diagrams of horrible shackles and thumbscrews.
Dergoul also described the use of what was known as the ‘short shackle’ - steel bonds pulled tight to keep the subject bunched up, while chained to the floor.
His feet were unshackled, however, and tapped anxiously on the floor.
She remains voiceless but the postures and the expressions convey the intense desire to break out of conventional modes, a desire to burst forth from the shackles of male suppression.
The bumpy road took us through ramshackle villages and dusty towns past waving schoolchildren in white uniforms. The Sun
Free from the shackles of relegation, there was the tantalising prospect of uncaged tigers released to feast and relieve their frustration on the home side.
The shackles were taken off. Times, Sunday Times
And unlike the anti-marketing Masters Tournament, which limits ads, the USGA doesn't shackle the networks.
I needn't remind you that this is the very same society that shackles them with its false smile and pristine lies and acts as a drug for the braindead masses.
Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled, if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition? all which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well regulated ones. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
One dusty street has all the town's shops, with a small grid of deteriorating roads and tumbledown shacks huddling between the sea and the low, brushy jungle that somehow looks poised to devour the suburbs.
When I first came here, my Mom pictured me living in a tarpaper shack.
When I knocked the shackle-bolt loose, the chain roared out through the hawse-hole and into the sea. Chapter 39
They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
Mary and Jill got enough heather and bracken to make two teds, one at each side of the shack. The Adventurous Four
The action of the play takes place in a remote ramshackle beach house built on sand dunes.
Is a title worth it-- does a title shackle a person?" the former Alaska governor asked during a discussion of her 2012 plans Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Here the sweet, thick smell of paco wafts out of almost every shack and from every street corner. Times, Sunday Times
By evoking the shamelessness of the mythic trickster, the creative artist overcomes shame and breaks through the shackles of social constraint.
‘This is part of a long dream and an indication to many aspirant youths that coming from the shacks does not mean that one is doomed,’ he said.
She found herself in a dark cold cell with chains around her wrists and shackles around her ankles.
Twice she had spurred him on in the scallop shack behind Joe 's house, the mosquitoes feasting merrily on his back. AMAGANSETT
‘We want to replace the current ramshackle building with one of the same size, with about ten per cent of the space used for aquatics,’ he said.
He told his driver to stop outside a broken-down shack, where an emaciated woman and two young men sat on a porch surrounded by household debris.
He was standing, shackled to the top of a door frame with a gag in his mouth at the time he died.
Industrial progress is being shackled by a mass of regulations.
It quickly spread to neighbouring shacks, leaving their already poor occupants destitute.
The three prisoners who have been shackled up are frightened.
Nailed over the doorway of the ramshackle clapboard frontage of the building was a large rectangular sign.
You have killed just enough of our folk to each have a ride to the city," the captain said biliously as a soldier handed him the ring of shackle keys. Mercadian Masques
Instead of fleeing he walked right into the house next door and calmly walked into a ramshackle apartment he had hired there.
Freed from shackles or facing end of the world as we know it? Times, Sunday Times
Today's NASA, in contrast, is focused on re-engineering big, expensive expendable rockets provided by hand-picked favorite contractors to launch throw-away spacecraft (also provided by hand-picked favorite contractors) whose designs are shackled to ancient architectural mentalities driven almost entirely by lunar access expediencies instead of long-term operational sustainability considerations. Sean O'Keefe Responds to Jay Barbree - NASA Watch
Muddy lanes surround dismal tin shacks and there is an aura of despondency and despair, which even the myriads of children do little to dispel.
Would to Heaven he was yoked to some tight piece of business, no matter whether well or ill paid, but some job that would hamshackle him at least until the courts rose, if it were but for decency’s sake.’ Redgauntlet
As the two knights reseated themselves at another table and began ordering again, a troupe of men in strange armor with helmets shaped like dragonheads came thundering into the little sushi shack.
I was handcuffed, shackled and blindfolded and held in solitary confinement for three months.
Ugly looking shacks not trees or flowers now wrapped many hills in and around Seoul.
ANC members in Stellenbosch this morning laid charges of arson and attempted murder after shots were fired at the home of a councillor and two other members´ shacks were set alight. SHOTS FIRED AT ANC COUNCILLOR�s HOME, SHACKS SET ALIGHT
The ground began shacking with such great force, not even the lifeless roots obscured in the grey soil were tough enough to hold up their dying masters.
During Burge's trial last summer, witnesses testified that he personally shackled, electrocuted, suffocated and beat them to force their admissions of guilt. Burge Lawyers Want Sentence Shortened Based On His Military Record
Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn), Team RadioShack, at 5: 51 114. 2010 Paris-Brussels results
The prisoners were kept shackled during the trial.
The runways were lengthened and tarpaper shacks and other buildings were built in a matter of a few months.
She and I would never be broken apart again, and we would never have to feel the lash of a whip, hear someone call us ugly names, feel the cold cruelty of shackles and chains about our wrists and ankles.
I crossed a railroad overpass and reached a bunch of shacks where two highways forked off, both for Denver.
We sit side by side at the bar counter of an old fishermen's shack where they've been filming.
I stumbled across one shack, but was lucky this farmer was easy going.
But he adds that resentment is high against foreigners, especially among the millions of unemployed South Africans who live in shacks without water or sanitation. Zimbabwean Immigrants in South Africa Seek Work Permits
Unfortunately they are fettered and shackled, and have become mouthpieces and lackeys of whoever wants to promote a message.
We love the beach shack, which gets back to basics on a secretive, sandy beach. Times, Sunday Times
We are currently shackled, he says, to the only trading bloc in the world that is experiencing no growth. Times, Sunday Times
Recognizing it to be a naval auxiliary, the Shackleton stood off.
The summer waned; the cows were turned into the shack, and the most "forehanded" among us began to cut boughs for banking up the house, and set afoot other preparations for winter's cold. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life
Fourth, the working class and labour movement, repressed, shackled, lacking independence, was no alternative.
A small wooden shack with a carved wooden placard labeled "office" is surrounded by neatly stacked and bound pallets of sapwood. Mark Cassello: Can America Return to an Indigenous Economy?
Other authors were shackled by two dicta of contemporary thinking among evolutionary biologists, of which Beadle and Emerson were either unaware or unpersuaded.
Others were shacks, inns, or just rows of shops.
For example, if a PC is hiding in a 10×10 wooden shack that is hit by a culverin inflicting 35 points of damage on the structure, he may take 8 points of fragment damage if he fails his save. Cannon for Pathfinder « Geek Related
Even someone with his track record - and, for a tubby obnoxious slug, he has managed to shack up with some stunners - must occasionally fall at the first hurdle.
Ten thousand strengths seemed then to heave him from her heart; and struggling with a power that amazed even herself, she threw him from her; and holding him off with her shackled arms, her shrieks again pierced the heavens. The Scottish Chiefs
When not in a cell, prisoners are cuffed, shackled and escorted by two or three guards.
A pair of shackles and chilling messages daubed on the walls have already been uncovered from the first two secret chambers at the site. The Sun
Tacks and sheets are shackled, and the clew-garnets are lashed to the clews; when ready, man the reef-tackles, leechlines, and buntlines, and clew-garnets, and walk all the gear up together.
I walk a few hundred paces from the house to my wood shack each day and it is transformational. Times, Sunday Times
They were currently shacked up at the ranger station, only emerging for occasional trips to Bulk Wonderland for mega-packs of condoms. How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf
I hung over the side of the pulpit and saw that the bobstay chain was shackled to the end cap on the bowsprit, so I hunted up a wrench and another shackle.
Sambrooke, his mother and surviving sisters took possession, and the maiden aunts moved out to Shackerley Hall near Albrighton.
He survived with three cracked vertebrae and a dislocated finger after the roof of a shack broke his fall.
Aboard ship, where recoil space was limited, the "kick" of the gun was checked by a heavy rope called a breeching, shackled to the side of the vessel Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
The ‘soft law’ approach allows states to tackle a problem collectively at a time when they do not want too strictly to shackle their freedom of action.
Where the status of a shack or a hut is concerned our concept of ‘house’ may simply fail to provide for a definite decision.
This is as touristy as it gets on Tobago, with a few tour buses and a handful of beach shacks selling souvenirs - more like a quiet off-season day in any other part of the Caribbean.
The game also plays rather well and embraces the freedom from shackles. The Sun
The visitor had entered the compound from the west, skirting the shack, making for the whaleboat house. AMAGANSETT
To the south, athwart the mountain's lower slope, was a maze of byways and ramshackle housing for the native population.
So some guerrillas came and ped a bench outside this small shack.
OURNEYING toward the upper course of the Capilano River, about a mile citywards from the dam, you will pass a disused logger's shack. Legends of Vancouver
You're going to have $400,000, million-dollar-mortgage, plastic-covered tarpaper shacks - which is what I think they're going for now - where the people in them, no longer have the jobs.
The hostage had been shackled to a radiator.
My people lived in tarpaper shacks with plywood siding and five-gallon drums for heat.
But neither they nor he wanted to stray too far from the collection of small-scale bungalows, shacks, and cabins that make up this mountain town's built context.
Rather than remain shackled to a waning star, the captain filed for bankruptcy and divorce in 1905. Cocotte of the Week: May Yohé | Edwardian Promenade
Making Forty Mile with a view to dissipating his newly found wealth in a gormandizing "jag," he sent the settlers in that ramshackle camp into wild excitement by producing nuggets of a size hitherto unmatched. Colorado Jim
This capacity empowers and unshackles developers from the limitations and obstacles they face in the development of software for other devices, putting the power in the hands of the artist.
Then he was shackled in handcuffs, leg irons, and a belly chain and taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
As mentioned earlier, the only childhood task I dreaded more than fetching things was hauling combustibles, like paper, down to the shacks by the creek.
The bumpy road took us through ramshackle villages and dusty towns past waving schoolchildren in white uniforms. The Sun
In every corny soap opera or sappy movie, the main characters find themselves shacked up in some seedy motel.
We certainly don't put the shackles on. Times, Sunday Times
All the little shacks had been destroyed. Times, Sunday Times
In some spots, villagers were building cinder-block houses, a sturdy if ugly improvement over their flimsy bamboo shacks.
Well, thankfully we have an opportunity each fall to choose cinematic options that remove (to a degree) the shackles of the corporate system.
Scott himself, with Shackleton, made a sledge journey to beyond 82 degrees south in 1902.
Every time a shingle is added to the gimcrack, ramshackle governance structure that we're propping up, another door falls off its hinges. Archive 2009-04-01

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