shanty

How To Use shanty In A Sentence

• In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
• It's right where the shantytown used to be, ringed by businesses and middle-class homes.
• The slums and shanty towns stand in stark contrast to the multi-storey towers and the glamour of Bollywood.
• Mumbai is a mixture of great wealth and extreme poverty, delightful colonial buildings alongside shanty huts. Times, Sunday Times
• The plane in which the Europeans arrive in San Theodoros is shown flying over an impoverished shanty town.
• They learned to dress and pack the catch, their clothes crusted with scales, the boards of the shanty slick with gurry beneath their feet. AMAGANSETT
• The worst troubled flared around the shanty town 's makeshift mosque. The Sun
• Sheltering behind another wall, he could look out into a clear area where the people of the shanty town were gathered.
• Shanty says one of the reasons why the families are attracted to the idea of cohousing is their disenchantment with most of the residential estates built by major developers. The Jakarta Post Breaking News
• A recent recruit from Liverpool who joined his Stafford Street office was welcomed with a few jaunty choruses from a sea shanty.