Shanty in a sentence as a noun

They are giving inhabitants of shanty towns small houses.

You can't get your kid a computer if you're sharing a shanty-town room with 2 other families.

Why would someone with 10x the income of a farm worker villager live in a shanty town without water?

I think this is because no one question the privilege of being born in a wealthy suburb rather then a shanty town.

Congrats on not evicting people from shanty towns, excuse me if you aren't awarded the next Nobel Peace Prize.

So sad, but so true.\nI am living in the big ball of mud, and the bit about the shanty towns is exactly what I see every day.\n;-;

Absolutely, as someone who grew up in a city like Mumbai, I know much about shanty towns and from my knowledge of them, they are far from ideal.

Likely his shanty has tv, water for a few hours a day that fill up an overhead tank and has a doctor nearby - all or some of which may not be true in his village.

It would - "Silkroad"-style shutdowns would happen to all the Bitcoin companies, the value of bitcoin would plummet and this shanty economy would disappear overnight.

Temporary slum-like shantytowns -- totally informal mud-and-corrugated metal shacks -- were set up to house the workers, who worked for 7 days per week, from dawn to dusk.

Might be too late to chime in but not enough people know this:Much of south Texas is shanty towns and illegal settlements, because immigration won't check documents until you are about 100 miles from the border.

K-Mart is similar, but while Wal-Mart just has an air of bone-cutting industrial cheapness, K-Mart is more sad, it's more like the dilapidated shanty, leaning to one side, with ten kids playing in the yard.

The shantytowns that the author found so disturbing are actually a side-effect of India's weak property rights laws, which themselves are a result of democratic pressure from the poor to continue living where their families have lived for generations.

Shanty definitions

noun

small crude shelter used as a dwelling

See also: hovel hutch shack

noun

a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors

See also: chantey chanty