What is "hovels"

Usage examples of "hovels".

UN-approved Chew-Z-owned ship landed on Mars and distributed its initial bindles to the hovels in the Fineburg Crescent.

From inside her big hat she surveyed the few wretched hovels that fronted directly on the roadway.

Very little smoke rose from the roofs of the flimsy hovels tottering up the steep hillside.

Within days the fever had spread through the lower city and the reeking slums across the Tiber where the poor sheltered in their hovels of sticks and mud.

It was not much of a place, just a huddle of reed-thatched hovels with a few patchwork gardens protected by cactus-thorn hedges, but he had still walked clean past without noticing its existence.

A Mahratta round shot smacked into one of the hovels, scattering reed and dry timber, and leaving the sad roof sagging.

But I knew that if a suitable victim did not become available soon it would be necessary to venture into one of the hovels, where we would be certain to find what we required.