1
: an open shed or shelter
2
religion
: tabernacle
3
: a small, wretched, and often dirty house : hut
Examples of hovel in a Sentence
refugees living in crowded hovels
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An adventurous death trip that will magically drive them both from their hovel to the wild mountains and up to New York, from suffocating reality to absolute freedom.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
Well nuclear is back, because AI needs it, not because peasants risk freezing in their hovels.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Many rising comedians live in hovels, but not Zarna Garg, who recently opened for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on their national comedy tour.
—Sheila Yasmin Marikar, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
Moon’s family embodies the dislocation: He was born in a hovel on Geoje Island, off Korea’s southeast coast, three years after his mother fled the North on a U.S. cargo ship with 14,000 other refugees as part of the Hungnam evacuation.
—Victor Gaetan, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2017
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
Well nuclear is back, because AI needs it, not because peasants risk freezing in their hovels.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Many rising comedians live in hovels, but not Zarna Garg, who recently opened for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on their national comedy tour.
—Sheila Yasmin Marikar, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
Moon’s family embodies the dislocation: He was born in a hovel on Geoje Island, off Korea’s southeast coast, three years after his mother fled the North on a U.S. cargo ship with 14,000 other refugees as part of the Hungnam evacuation.
—Victor Gaetan, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2017
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“Hovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hovel. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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