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.
From afar the shanty towns resembled ramshackle collections of matchboxes.
We don't care about the experts turning that two-bedroom shanty into a beautiful mansion, we want to see that arrogant caulker shoot a roofing nail into his foot and fall into a tree mulching machine.
Brazilian youngster practices his learning skills on a computer hooked up to the internet, at a school run by a non-profit organization set up in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro.
The smell of wood smoke, crowing of roosters and shanty, tin roofed housing took me back to that Africa of long ago. Chiapas as Bubba - Imperfection Personified
In my case this ‘dark corner’ is a shanty town inhabited by the ghosts of yesteryear, already categorised by my failed personal encounters.
The story follows a few months in the life of a poor man in an Arab shanty town.
We drove through a Keralan-like shanty town, down roads green with palms and bananas and signposts pointing to ‘resorts’.
The inhabitants of the shanty towns have frequently achieved stability and social organisation through the establishment of personal networks and voluntary associations.
Law'm , Miss Scarlett, ah doan lib in Shantytown. Ah jes'bidin'hyah fer a spell.
Often referred to as shanty towns, these make-shift settlements now house one-third to one-half of the population of many cities.
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.
It's like one of Martin Parr's photographic nightmares, a neon shanty town of amusement arcades, chip shops and crumbling holiday camps that look like gulags.
Once darkness falls, the army cedes huge areas of the shanty towns to local gangs and mobsters.
The buildings are a disgrace, a shanty town slum, officially not fit for purpose. Times, Sunday Times
We made a search and found those stolen camera lenses in a little woodshed behind the shanty where he lives with his father. THREE IN ONE
Robert Mugabe for what it called oppression of his own people and called for an immediate end to the demolitions of shantytowns. ANC Daily News Briefing
WAGNER: He became a different -- he was one of those what they refer to as shanty Irish. CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2002
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Concrete public housing projects evoke their counterparts elsewhere and shanty towns exist on the urban periphery.
The conditions they lived in were atrocious: overcrowded lodging houses, cellars, and garrets, shanty towns in the insalubrious districts beyond the town walls.
She is not expecting Dysart until the day has well grown into its afternoon; but, book in hand, she has escaped from all possible visitors to spend a quiet hour in the old earwiggy shanty at the end of the garden, sure of finding herself safe there from interruptions. April's Lady A Novel
Like Hoagy Carmichael, the composer of "Georgia on My Mind," Ray Charles had a natural affinity for the lie of the land: his voice could embrace the purple-mountained uplift of "America the Beautiful" and ramble slyly through back roads and shantytowns, too. The Lord’s Music and the Devil’s Words
Her house in a hillside shanty town is stocked with a small but valuable stash of cooking oil, nappies and cornflour. Times, Sunday Times
Such children in rural areas help their parents on subsistence farms, while in the shanty areas of towns school dropouts engage in petty street vending, with the ever present risk of drifting into crime and vice.
Our ongoing collaboration provides pediatric primary care to marginalized Haitian immigrant children living in shanty town-like villages (bateyes) where their parents work on sugar cane plantations. Activities
I want to quit this shanty.
Police said the pilot, contracted to take an actor dressed as Santa to the party in the Nova Mare slum, was flying over the neighboring Vila Joao shantytown when it was fired upon on Sunday.
They won't necessarily want to bring a T-shirt home from the Cape Flats, but Denis and his partner should visit Cape Town's infamous shanty town if they want to see what the city's really about.
The so-called port at Siem Reap is actually a huge shanty town where the jetty is literally collapsing into the water.
I guess we'd better hev a liquor-up to seal the barg'in; an 'when thet's done, if you've got nuthin' better to du, I reckon you'd better come along o 'me to my little shanty at the head of the bay -- your brother's ben made welcome thaar already. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
He and Anna became “lace curtain Irish,” the term the jealous “shanty Irish” of First Ward used for families that moved up and out. Wild Bill Donovan
His house is roofless and a small shanty next to it serves as a shelter.
According to Richard Franceys, putting water supply on a commercial basis has meant more money to connect the very poorest people in the slums and shanty towns.
John Taylor, an unordained pastor working at a Bible Society shantytown, accompanied them and was appointed by the government as their agent.
The inhabitants of the shanty towns have frequently achieved stability and social organisation through the establishment of personal networks and voluntary associations.
The thick hazy air was crackling with diesel fumes as well, and a shantytown stink intruded even into this enclave of wealth. T2©: RISING STORM
Life on the Tracks is a humorous and heart-rending film which focuses on family life in a Filipino shanty town built either side of a railway track.
This "frier," whose shanty leaned against a tumble-down house, and was propped up by heavy joists, green with moss, made a display of boiled mussels lying in large earthenware bowls filled to the brim with clear water; of dishes of little yellow dabs stiffened by too thick a coating of paste; of squares of tripe simmering in a pan; and of grilled herrings, black and charred, and so hard that if you tapped them they sounded like wood. The Fat and the Thin
A post-apocalyptic shanty town with people dressed in cheesy clothing. Americatown | /Film
A group of writers, especially of writers who were in revolt against big business and the corruption of the trusts, were about to effect a combination and start what was to be called the _National Magazine_; for it was to be no less than that, a magazine embracing all America, to serve as a re-invigorant and re-corroborant for new national ideals ... really only a tilting against the evils of big combinations, in favour of the earlier and more impossible ideals of small business units -- the ideal of a bourgeois commercial honesty and individual effort that could no more be re-established than could the big shoe factory be broken up and returned to the shanty of the village shoemaker .... Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative
Such children in rural areas help their parents on subsistence farms, while in the shanty areas of towns school dropouts engage in petty street vending.
After spending much of the Depression as a freelance journalist touring shanty towns, Fuller began scriptwriting in Hollywood and publishing pulp novels.
For these women, a lack of outdoor lighting in the shantytowns and maquilas increases danger for those who face a long, unlit walk to the nearest bus stop.
His house is roofless and a small shanty next to it serves as a shelter.
He told me about all the great bluesmen he had known and about the shantytowns along the Mississippi River. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
In between, the journey is at breakneck speed on rutted roads through shanty villages or hotel-lined luxury.
Texaco is an "insalubrious" shantytown named for a nearby oil refinery, and the so-called Christ is a city planner who has come to bulldoze this slum in the name of progress. NYT > Home Page
It belongs to a Mozambiquan family who were chased away Sunday night by South Africans who live in the very same shanty town. (on-camera): Shack fires like this are becoming all too common around the Johannesburg area. CNN Transcript May 19, 2008
Carlos Ezquival Acme Street Artist Museu de Favela is trying to turn the shantytown, which is home to more than 20,000 people, into a popular destination. BBC News - Home
The first incidents broke out in March 1968 in Nanterre, a new university created in 1963 in the middle of a shanty town to the north-west of Paris in order to ease the pressure on the old Sorbonne.
The sound of pipes joined the beat of the drum, and the men began to sing a hearty sea shanty as the ship moved through the surf and out to sea.
A recent recruit from Liverpool who joined his Stafford Street office was welcomed with a few jaunty choruses from a sea shanty.
Had Ron Davies become First Secretary we would now be living in shanty towns, stuck at home watching re-runs of Satellite City and evenings with Max Boyce on our black and white TV sets. Archive 2009-09-01
In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme that bulldozed major shanty towns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2007
One of these noble woodsmen guided me next day to the post; when, as a small mark of gratitude for his generous kindness, I presented him and his companions with what is always acceptable to a shanty-man, a liberal allowance of the "crathur," to enjoy themselves withal. Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.
We visited a shanty town in Cape Town, which is like a ghetto, but far worse. Josh Dozoretz: Play Pumps
The sound of pipes joined the beat of the drum, and the men began to sing a hearty Canaanite sea shanty as the ship moved through the surf and out to sea.
As the summit began yesterday, desperate kids in nearby shanty towns queued for water at standpipes.
Our ‘shortcut’ led us into a shanty town, before we were chased back out of it by barking Alsatians.
Far from doing himself any favours, however, his ineptitude kicks off a war between the Axe Gang and the inhabitants of Pig Sty Alley, a run-down shanty town that provides a surprising home to some kung-fu legends.
Corrugated huts house additional families in backyards and the shanty towns overflow with new arrivals.
They will live in shanty towns, with well humanured and composted veggie patches, and scavage the ruins of once great cities like Detroit for survivalist items, pots, pans, old clothing and linens. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Those Stable, Happy 1950’s
The inhabitants of the shanty towns have frequently achieved stability and social organisation through the establishment of personal networks and voluntary associations.
At a time of dissolving borders and distances the nation as a whole, with 92 million inhabitants, an impressive system of electronic communications, and a whole new subproletariat in shantytowns trying to fight its way into the middle class, is due for another decades-long round of roiling, combustible history. History Moving North
A housing scheme at the edge of Guanabara Bay outside Rio de Janeiro replaces a shanty town with architectural imagination and intelligence.
Skeleton House, pays homage to the shantytowns and favelas that sprout up unbidden on the outskirts of the world's major cities.
The first incidents broke out in March 1968 in Nanterre, a new university created in 1963 in the middle of a shanty town to the north-west of Paris in order to ease the pressure on the old Sorbonne.
The earth movers are towering, terrifying machines, bigger than most of the concrete shanty houses they were sent in to destroy.
A key change on a sea shanty prompted no end of joking. Times, Sunday Times
I suppose I'm what the Bible calls a hewer of wood and a drawer of water," he would say to himself; for hardly less onerous than the task of keeping the fire in fuel was that of keeping well filled the two water-barrels that stood on either side of the door -- one for the thirsty shantymen, the other for Baptiste's culinary needs. The Young Woodsman Life in the Forests of Canada
They were all moved to townships - shanty towns of wooden huts built away from any natural resources or shelter.
The shanty was kept by a man who went by the name of Thomas, a notorious lamber-down, * as I found out afterwards. Children of the Bush
Police raiding a favela, or shantytown, in Rio on Jan. 11 confiscated crack rocks in packaging emblazoned with the face of Ronaldinho, one of Brazil's most prominent stars. Brazil's Emerging Market: Crack
The thick hazy air was crackling with diesel fumes as well, and a shantytown stink intruded even into this enclave of wealth. T2©: RISING STORM
He was snoring in a back room, and, like a man in the deadhouse of a bush shanty, not likely to wake before sunrise. Robbery Under Arms
There is a vast difference between somebody living in a shanty town hoping for a small plot on which to erect a pondok and somebody who wants to become a full-time bona fide farmer.
In the hard times of the 1930s, unemployed men and transient hobos often took temporary refuge on the island, erecting small shantytowns of tents.
The effectiveness of this approach has a lot to do with the film's naturalistic casting, for many of the roles have been filled with real-life residents from the shanty town known as the ‘city of God.’
Cities with gleaming business districts and luxury developments for the rich are surrounded by shanty towns and slums.
The sound of pipes joined the beat of the drum, and the men began to sing a hearty Canaanite sea shanty as the ship moved through the surf and out to sea.
We took a little boat out and I demonstrated my inability to row for more than ten minutes as we passed the small shanty (or ‘bustee’) communities which line the waterways of the city.
The size of this "shantytown" should be viewed not as a symbol of USAS's difficulties but as proof that college students remain as ideologically diverse as ever and that most students are not easily swayed by the rhetoric of this latest student-activism fad. Mail Call
The shanty bands sing about cocaine, grass, booze, sex and football fandom.
The battle takes place in the alleys and rooftops of the shanty town, so you can be attacked from any angle. The Sun
He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice.
Because he also can't leave the county, there is effectively only one place he can go: a rat-infested strip of land beneath a causeway where other sex offenders have erected a shantytown. Living Among the Outcasts; a Shattered Family
And not just because it landed three top performers - singers Shanty, Melly Goeslaw and Titi DJ - as well as noted emcees Tika Panggabean and Farhan.
For someone like Jakes, everyone from a beleaguered president in the White House to a malnourished Kenyan boy in a shantytown is tugging at his cuffs. The Preacher
Pop music can be heard 10 miles away blasting out from the huge tented shanty-town.
A path led through the underbrush to the shanty of a woman named Mrs Fetchalub, his closest neighbor.
Adelaida Parra coordinates seven literacy groups each week spending long hours travelling by bus between the distant shanty towns.
There is awful deprivation in the shanty towns.
Currently, the Saunderses support more than 300 orphans in several shanty townships dotted around the city of Lusaka.
shantytown" has formed under a bridge linking Miami to Miami Beach because various laws prohibit sexual offenders from living within 2500 feet of various things, and the bridge is the only piece of property in the county that lies outside the 2500 foot radius. Libertarian Blog Place
Laroui lived with her parents and her two small children in a shantytown. Rachel Newcomb: One Moroccan Woman's Fiery Protest
It was a barren grassland dotted with farms but soon grew into a shanty town surrounded by mine dumps as the diggers went deeper and deeper.
The people were living in shanty towns and the government had to ship water to the residents. Thoughts: Garbage Warrior....Sustainable Housing
The village down the road is a study in contrast - mud roads, garbage heaps, clogged drains and shanty dhabas are the high points of a walk through Shikaripalaya.
The arts and social science faculties of Paris university had been moved to an overspill site on the former shanty town of Nanterre in 1964, and had grown from 4,000 to 15,000 students by the autumn of 1967.
Yet Cohan admits he writes from a position of ‘utter privilege’ and it's something to see a side of Mexico that isn't all shantytowns and bandidos.
Father would disapprove of his daughter settling for what he called a shanty Irish beau. Sea Escape
They prodded authorities to raze the hundreds of alley shantytowns housing the city's poor and destitute.
He kept them in the little cottage next to ours; and that the shanty survived the tumultuous presence of that brood is a wonder to me to-day. The Promised Land
She was still dressed in the green fatigues that she'd been wearing earlier at the shanty town. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
Her ethnography is the result of more than a decade of fieldwork done in the 1990s in one of Rio's urban shantytown communities.
The township is a sprawling shanty town and squatter camp hidden by the bush.
As the erstwhile global village goes heteropolar, it is coming to resemble something akin to a patchwork of gated communities surrounded by seething seas of shantytowns. Embassy
They may be employed in retail stores, cafes or holiday resorts, serving the needs of tourists, or as housekeepers in the homes of expatriates, but they return each day to a dismal shanty area.
Shanty towns made of tin, plywood and salvaged materials rise along the highway and stretch for miles.
They are as keenly felt by the African tribesman as by the European city-dweller, by the inhabitant of a Latin American shanty-town as by the resident of a Manhattan apartment.
I'm 22, engaged to the man of my dreams and I'm hoping that I can find a job before I'm forced to live in a shantytown of boxes.
A visitor to an early 20th century camp described the lumberjacks sitting around the box stove in their barrack-like shanty enjoying a ‘free-for-all’ - playing checkers, poker or cooncan, reading, writing letters and talking.
Thousands of Inca mummies were found at an ancient cemetery under a shantytown near Lima in 2002.
We rode through a stream, enjoyed a few final bursts of speed and skidding switchbacks and freewheeled into the shanty town of Yolosa.
The inhabitants of the shanty towns have frequently achieved stability and social organisation through the establishment of personal networks and voluntary associations.
He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice.
Like its predecessor, this Brazilian movie tells the tale of young friends trying to survive in a lawless shanty town. The Sun
It spins to the music of Christine, music tormentingly cheerful like some mad maiden's shanty for a sailor gone away to sea.
Shantytowns and ghettos across our planet house nearly 4 billion people subsisting on less than $2,000 per year.
On one of the rafts was a shanty of newly sawed pine boards; it had no windows, but it was evidently a home, for a stove-pipe came through its roof, and there was a woman sitting in its little doorway, nursing her baby. The Iron Woman
sordid shantytowns
Mumbai is a mixture of great wealth and extreme poverty, delightful colonial buildings alongside shanty huts. Times, Sunday Times
I'd rather get within ten feet of someone who lives in township or a shanty town, because there are a great many of them.
We used to walk together kicking the cobblestones in the shanty town.
When we went filming out in the bush, we were filming in a slum called Kabira, which is just outside Nairobi, where there are a million people living in a shanty town with no running water, no electricity, no sanitation.
Haitian shantytowns
We are not a symbolic representation of war, of a refugee camp, or a shantytown.
The people make their way to Trnopolje, a refugee shanty-town near the railway and a lake.
He crossed the open glade, was, nearly at the shanty, when he heard voices -- loud, coarse voices -- _coming from his shanty_. Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned
In the foreground a wooden shanty, a broom by the door with a ramshorn hanging from its handle. The Road to Damascus
We made a search and found those stolen camera lenses in a little woodshed behind the shanty where he lives with his father. THREE IN ONE
This gives you the feeling of actually being there, out there amongst the dusty border towns, amidst the rocks and the hard places, with the wheeler-dealers in shanty tea-stalls.
Finally, I neared the location of my primary target – Mokuba, a shanty town with a mass of hazardously placed explosives just waiting to devastate living flesh. Archive 2009-06-01
The former, for example, resulted in the creation of shanty towns on the outskirts of the major cities.
Mogadishu is a town in ruin, damaged buildings, tin shanty shacks, piles of garbage and burned-out vehicles in the streets.
Pop music can be heard 10 miles away blasting out from the huge tented shanty-town.
One quarter of the population lives in shanty towns. Times, Sunday Times
Others live in shantytowns, or bidonvilles, which are often bulldozed into oblivion by the town councils while the occupants are at a local feast.
Like its predecessor, this Brazilian movie tells the tale of young friends trying to survive in a lawless shanty town. The Sun
The place where I'm staying, is newish, and a cut above the rest - a row of shanty-chic posadas in a tropical garden right opposite those incendiary falls.
The arts and social science faculties of Paris university had been moved to an overspill site on the former shanty town of Nanterre in 1964, and had grown from 4,000 to 15,000 students by the autumn of 1967.
As a Yale student, I can assure you that this "shantytown" was nothing more than a three-man tent and a card table. Mail Call
The first incidents broke out in March 1968 in Nanterre, a new university created in 1963 in the middle of a shanty town to the north-west of Paris in order to ease the pressure on the old Sorbonne.
Amid the shanty towns of one of the world's poorest countries idols do not come bigger than the striker Sir Bobby Robson dubbed "the gobbiest footballer I've ever met". Even David Beckham could learn a thing or two from Craig Bellamy
Pop music can be heard 10 miles away blasting out from the huge tented shanty-town.
As a result, tennis courts are popping up all over the country - in exclusive country clubs and expensive condominiums but also in more accessible sports clubs and in shantytowns.
An 'this is the shanty you wrote about with everything out and inside higgle-de-piggeldy! The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
A “shantytown” has formed under a bridge linking Miami to Miami Beach because various laws prohibit sexual offenders from living within 2500 feet of various things, and the bridge is the only piece of property in the county that lies outside the 2500 foot radius. The Volokh Conspiracy » Where, According to Tort Law, Should Accused Criminals and Ex-Convicts Live?
In the urban shantytowns, small-scale commercial activities such as vegetable stalls, food stores, carpentry, and tailoring abound.
On the surface of this ghastly shanty town everything looks normal - all colour and bright sunshine and loud Hindi music blaring out.
The musical form and melodic characteristics suggest the Anglo-Celtic and African influences of the multinational workforce that sang the shanty.
It's a fascinating remnant of a little-known corner of history - a shanty sung by black ocean-going sailors, lamenting their unequal pay.
I used to notice, even as a boy, how it seemed to inspire the shantyman to sentimental flights of _Heimweh_ that at times came perilously near poetry. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
It is not wise to allow the "deadbeat" -- the remittance man, the gaunt shepherd with his starving flocks and herds, the free selector on an arid patch, the drink shanty where the rouseabouts and shearers knock down their cheques, the race meeting where high and low, rich and poor, are filled with the gambler's ill luck -- fill the foreground of the picture of Australian life. An Autobiography
They live in artificially lit shanty-arcologies and depend on shipment piracy for survival. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
He helps us grab a tuk-tuk and we soon arrive at a shanty-esque seafood place down a gritty alley. Peter Winter: Driving at Night in Thailand
As Ohearn and Devlin started singing an old sea shanty, the others joined in with their voices and began to jostle one another for the wine.
So far, 2,426 homes have been destroyed in the mudslides, many built precariously in hillside shantytowns.
The slums and shanty towns stand in stark contrast to the multi-storey towers and the glamour of Bollywood.
We rode through a stream, enjoyed a few final bursts of speed and skidding switchbacks and freewheeled into the shanty town of Yolosa.
In the shanty towns there are very poor living standards.
They finally come to the leper colony, where the lepers live in a shantytown on one side of the Amazon.
The slow accretion of shanty towns to the shell of the city is punctuated by storms of poverty and sudden explosions of slum-building.
They are followed into the ramshackle shanty town by the regular military police. The Sun
In the hard times of the 1930s, unemployed men and transient hobos often took temporary refuge on the island, erecting small shanty towns of tents.
Caught off guard, Olive stared open mouthed at the newcomer as he kept singing his sea shanty in a rich baritone voice, oblivious to his audience.
Bridget saw the squalor and poverty of the Christians, who fled the south to live in shanty towns around the capital.

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