How To Use Yurt In A Sentence
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Helped a commune of longhairs build a crazy house called a yurt.
The Long Walk Home
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The Mongols, like so many Eastern peoples, suffer much from inflammation of the eyes, the result of dirt, and even more of the acrid argol smoke filling the yurts so that often I was compelled to take flight.
A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia
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At one time, the nomadic Kazaks lived in yurts, cone-shaped tents of white felt stretched over a framework of wooden poles.
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Does the Registered Architects' Board have to employ someone who understands tepee building or Mongolian yurts?
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The book festival is in a square, filled with huge tents, pods and even a yurt.
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Nash directed Katani and Yurt to go back to the swamp and soak a bandanna with cold water.
Beacon Street Girls: Lake Rescue
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On the Loose Expeditions' two luxury yurts are in a secluded corner of a 150-acre working organic farm in Vermont's Green Mountains.
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Inside the yurt was a pond where goldfish swam from The Times: Carol Ann Duffy's tribute to departing head of Edinburgh book festival posted by Rus Bowden at 2:49 PM
Archive 2009-08-01
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The camp was ready for my sole occupancy and, yes, it was made up of those wonderful, traditional, Mongolian felt tents they called yurts.
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A motorcycle and sidecar stood somewhat incongruously outside a yurt, a large domed tent constructed of sections of felt stitched over a framework of laths.
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He'd been planning a village of yurts - semipermanent round tents made from wood and canvas - for ages.
Times, Sunday Times
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They erected a yurt - a round tent-like structure - and put up tents to sleep in.
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Her students will make use of the project's three on-site yurts - circular Mongolian-style tents which house a large propagator and a cosy classroom kept toasty with a wood-burning stove.
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They had a yurt, which is a tent, and the guide wondered, out loud, what it would be like to live in such a thing.
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In Russian, a yurt is called "yurta" (юрта), and there is an obsolete term "kibitka" (кибитка).
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Here's a primer: A yurt is a circular, domed structure originally used by nomads in Mongolia, Siberia and Turkey and is now used worldwide for inexpensive or temporary housing.
Columnist Considers Living
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The collective - all mums of children at the Steiner School in Fulford - first came together on a project to erect a yurt, the Mongolian equivalent of a North American wigwam, on St Nicholas Fields.
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With low obeisances they begged the foreign "Noyon" to enter the yurta.
Beasts, Men and Gods
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Twenty feet away, three rangers wearing military fatigues and toting rifles sat outside a metal yurt.
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They are hung as doorway coverings at the entrance to a yurt (tent).
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Inuit igloos in the Arctic and felt-covered yurts on the Mongolian steppes, for example, have been used for centuries.
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Yes a yurt is a portable, felt-covered, wood lattice-framed dwelling structure used by the nomads in the steppes of Central Asia for centuries, and yes it is also a modern dwelling here in the west.
Live in a Well Rounded Dwelling and Build a Yurt Outside
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The yurts sleep between two and five people.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, he has not picked up on one particular Mongolian-related credit crunch fallout: Mrs Crime Scraps's upcoming holiday in a Yurt on Bodmin Moor, while Mr Crime Scraps and Master Crime Scraps take refuge in the pub!
January 2009
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The first came in the winter, while he was sleeping in a yurt in the woods.
The Times Literary Supplement
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One is a canvas tent, or yurt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Twenty feet away, three rangers wearing military fatigues and toting rifles sat outside a metal yurt.
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In Mongolia, the yurt's covering would normally be made from sheep hides - but the York volunteers decided on a canvas covering instead.
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Mother left the yurt with a barrel of horse milk in her hand.
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One company, Singing Horse, designs portable yurts.
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After a quick survey of the world's major philosophical and artistic movements, he plunges us into a contemporary pastoral idyll, on the farm of a couple called Tim and Emma in Hertfordshire, where battery chickens have been set free to roam flower-filled meadows and sleep in yurts made out of Cath Kidston.
Christina Patterson: What I Learnt from Prince Charles
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We never left a yurt without him handing over a substantial stack of tugrik bills, but we also watched him engaging with every adult in the family; introducing the children to us; stroking, massaging, and caressing the sick and aged; praising (and translating into German) outstanding events and achievements; and making everybody feel encouraged and important.
Visiting Galsan Tschinag in his Yurt Katharina Rout
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The movie team pitched their yurts about 1km away from the household.
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The aerie overlooked a savannah of cubicles with shelves lined with gizmos, yurtlike conference rooms, and countless microkitchens equipped with goodie-stuffed fridges and high-end espresso machines.
In the Plex
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Actually, not a tent but a yurt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inuit igloos in the Arctic and felt-covered yurts on the Mongolian steppes, for example, have been used for centuries.
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He had signed on, drawn down his bank account, paid his first wife a lump sum to cover her maintenance and child support for the twins, married the love of his soul on a sere, scorched afternoon three weeks ago, and put the finishing touches on his yurt.
The Silence
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Today, yurts are only used as temporary shelters by shepherds in remote, seasonal pastures.
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There are two other parks in Mongolia that have started to reintroduce the takhi ," says our guide when we are back in the warmth of his yurt, "but Hustai is their home.
Wild Horses Drag You Away
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The convoy includes a huge ox-cart, bearing a yurt, the traditional round Mongol felt tent.
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In a traditional yurt, the framework is covered with felt mats and tied down with hair ropes to prevent the mats from blowing off in stiff winds.
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At one time, the nomadic Kazaks lived in yurts, cone-shaped tents of white felt stretched over a framework of wooden poles.
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The yurts are a plus for those who like what has recently been penned as "glamping" - that is,
News from www.thesunchronicle.com
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A yurt - also known as a ger - is the Asian equivalent of a North American Indian wigwam.
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Her students will make use of the project's three on-site yurts.
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The bell tents and yurts have hardwood floors and double beds.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was greeted by dune buggies, which then took him across a lunar landscape for five hours to a collection of yurts, or Mongolian tents.
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Though he felt light-headed from the morning and afternoon group-meditation sessions and the trancing suck of the desert sun, he pushed himself up and tottered back to the yurt on legs that might as well have been deboned for all the stability they offered him, this perfect gift of the dragonfly inside him and no way to get it out.
The Silence
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The word yurt is originally from the Turkic word meaning "dwelling place" in the sense of "homeland"; the term came to be used in reference to the physical tent-like structures only in other languages.
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Then a blizzard settles in just before lunch, where live reindeer are tethered outside a yurt and cooked reindeer stew is simmering inside on the fire.
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A big silver tricycle, a batch of Jester clothes and a large, tent-like dwelling called a yurt.
Serfing the Web: Sites Let People Farm Out Their Chores
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The Dutchers spent six years living in yurts on the compound, recording whatever the wolves were doing.
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For a kookier experience, book one of El Cosmico's restored trailers or yurts, or the 22-foot-diameter teepee.
Drive-Through Vacations
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In a traditional yurt, the framework is covered with felt mats and tied down with hair ropes to prevent the mats from blowing off in stiff winds.
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And, I had to say, it looked great - yurts, the traditional felt tents, to sleep in, and spits over open fires for cooking.
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The bell tents and yurts have hardwood floors and double beds.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the eve of the lunar New Year, all members of the family sit cross-legged in the center of the ger or yurt and begin their dinner at midnight.
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You can do an overnight in a yurt and meet local nomadic people.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some parks rent cabins, yurts, tepees, even covered wagons.
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Cabins, studios, shepherd's huts, bothies and yurts are popping up in gardens up and down the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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The yurt is a type of “Green Weefab Mini-Home” and can be customized into another kind of hand-built “Earth Sheltered House” for those on a budget.
Live in a Well Rounded Dwelling and Build a Yurt Outside
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[For the record, a yurt is a "portable, felt-covered, wood lattice-framed dwelling structure used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia."]
Joseph Romm: Do You Want Tucker Carlson's Car?
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Each yurt is south-facing, on a redwood platform for lazy summer evenings on deckchairs.
The 10 best campsites for luxury
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Located on the ridge above Galena, three backcountry yurts are accessible by a short ski or snowshoe.