What is "shacks"

Usage examples of "shacks".

Job Titus, as they stood among the shacks of the workmen and watched the smoke pouring out of the tunnel mouth.

Out in the streets, the various guilds and groups that ruled Shuttlefield were carousing beneath the autumn sun: handmade banners flew above tents and shacks, while drunks staggered about with beads around their necks and wildness in their eyes, proclaiming everyone they saw to be their best friend.

People rose early in Shuttlefield: knocking fresh snow off their shacks and checking to see if anyone had died during the night before trudging over to the community hall in Liberty to receive another bowl of gruel.

From where he stood, he could see townspeople moving into position: behind the stilts supporting the blackwood cabins six feet above the ground, behind stone chimneys, behind chicken shacks and goat pens.

The truck was gone, and I was hoping he was busy looking for shacks to burn as I knocked on the door.

As they drove away, Sophie surveyed the Wilson homestead: two shacks and a sod hut, a grouping made only a little less desolate by the nearby creek with cottonwoods growing along it.

Chateau-Gaillard was like any other pulp-town--a new pier with mighty derricks, the tall white cylinders of the pulp mill, a big brick office, and a cluster of clapboard shacks which badly needed painting.

People sat huddled in icy shacks in all the clothes they could find, and dreamed themselves into decay.

This set the Hares mooning in their shacks awaiting death, and it held Galliard, a man of education and high ability, in the same blind, unreasoning bondage.

It consisted of a main street about a hundred yards long bordered on both sides by adobe shacks that were so worn by the elements it appeared a strong wind would blow them all over.

Especially, she liked the thick pilings the fishing shacks are built on.

There were four little shacks and a corral precariously pasted onto the side of Ayers Peak.

Jordan whipped a bright red silk kerchief from the pocket of the work shirt that he had changed into and brushed off the dust from a cedar stump that had been left when the two saloons and the storage shacks were being built.

In the outlines of stillborn streets shacks of concrete and corrugated iron blistered overnight.

But in rude shacks that mouldered by the industrial canals, and in front rooms blocked by dark windows, prayers were raised to stranger gods.