Used in a Sentence

hovel

How to use hovel in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for hovel.

Editorial note

You can construct some kind of hovel to live in.

Examples18
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

small crude shelter used as a dwelling

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hovel gathered in one view.

noun

small crude shelter used as a dwelling

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hovel.

Example sentences

1

You can construct some kind of hovel to live in.

2

It gives you just enough rope and bamboo to build a hovel or a skyscraper.

3

Most people are very risk-averse and would rather guard a hovel than build a mansion!

4

As of today all of the hovels except for one are burned down to the ground and bulldozed over.

5

I hope I don't get down voted, but unless you're being schooled in a hovel and/or lack decent living conditions, it's up to you.

6

I live in London now, but I don't know how it could be done as a kid. If I had to face the prospect of paying £1000 for some rat-infested hovel I might well prefer to move back in with my parents.

7

We had a room next to our sysadmin hovel that we used for setting up systems before putting them in the datacenter.

8

It encourages people to get out of the damn cities!There's a reason why it costs a king's ransom to rent a hovel in a city: finite space.

9

Is collapsing in your trailer, abusive nursing home, or city street any better than in your hovel or, well, city street, 150 years ago?

10

In a land with lots of rivers every "three taverns and a gas station" village hovel seems to have some kind of riverwalk, aside from the big one in my hometown.

11

It's made me run away from at least one business when I saw that their office address was basically an obviously unoccupied 2up 2down hovel.

12

Promoting Brave is essentially the same as painting logo "privacy" on the back entrance to the skyscraper while pouring gasoline on the last remaining competitor hovel.

13

All the while, the author is writing this from, what I expect, isn't a mud hovel while being, what I expect, is fully clothed, fed, and sheltered because they, themselves, did not give all of their money away to people who need more money.

14

Current browser situation looks like a giant skyscraper of the rich anti-privacy monopolist surrounded by 2-3 decrepit hovels of pro-privacy or neutral competitors.

15

That's certainly not the case for myself or most people who care about technology; I couldn't imagine sitting around playing call of duty all day, living off ramen in a cheap hovel in a bad neighborhood, if that option were offered to me tomorrow.

16

>>>from an EU point of view making a connection between house/car/food size and standards of living is bafflingHumanity has probably spent ~5,000 years with the aristocracy upgrading their dwellings to something larger and more permanent than a closet-sized hovel.

17

Sure, there are a lot of question marks about the methods, but the long time effects are astonishingBecause Widow Ramos no longer had a husband to share her hovel with, GDP per capita in the hamlet doubled!How prosperous she must have felt that he was executed!

18

Inner city living is the emotional equivalent of a hovel: single parent never home or addicted, mother has different abusive boyfriend each month, a walk to school is an invitation to join a gang - living in the inner city is about surviving to see tomorrow.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hovel in a sentence?

You can construct some kind of hovel to live in.

What does hovel mean?

small crude shelter used as a dwelling

What part of speech is hovel?

hovel is commonly used as noun.