How to Use hovel in a Sentence

hovel

noun

• The play opens in a one-room hovel in a rebel army camp in Liberia.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Maybe the problem wasn't a scary series of tubes or a creepy guy with a webcam in a hovel.
  — Jordan Crucchiola, Wired News, 17 Apr. 2015
• Inside, my hovel smelled musty as a summer cottage in the off-season.
  — Wes Enzinna, Harper's magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
• Hovey said her mom had asked her to be patient and wait until they were settled in that hovel-like shelter.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• At the core of the play is the relationship between Sawyer and Scratch (Evan Jonigkeit), the alluring devil who one strange day appears in her hovel.
  — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2019
• The ghastliest hovels, like Ruby’s house, often yield the highest returns.
  — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2016
• These big things are displayed in Moreau’s studio, which is more an immense gallery than office, hovel, or workspace.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Mar. 2022
• Walking, stunned, from one hovel to the next, Senator Robert F. Kennedy saw conditions that rivaled what he’d seen in third-world countries.
  — Time, 29 June 2017
• In its compacted span, the text skips, as if powered by some infernal engine, across eons and eras: from mud hut to modern hovel, from Iron Age to ironclads.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 19 Jan. 2023
• After the building was demolished, Warner moved into a hovel at 406½ Francisco St., just steps away from the site of his beloved saloon.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2021
• Before their new house was built, Reyes and her husband, Leandro Membreño, rented a hovel made of clay and galvanized metal sheets.
  — Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
• Episode 1: Frodo and Sam are sitting in their cold, dark underground hovel rubbing their hands over a small fire complaining about the lack of hobbit females to keep them company.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• Fanciness dripped off of every castle wall and humble underground hovel.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
• When Curtis moved to Little Rock in 1987, he was dismayed to see the condition of the house had deteriorated into a hovel for drug addicts and prostitutes.
  — Dwain Hebda, Arkansas Online, 16 Jan. 2023
• Brendan Fraser rightfully earned praise for his compassionate turn as a morbidly obese man living out his last lonely days in a dim Idaho hovel.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2022
• Additionally, the nocturnal insects tended to return to consistent hovels to rest and relax during the day.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 9 July 2018
• The idea of using house size as a proxy for economic status may not be revolutionary—a palace is bigger than a hovel, after all—but the researchers found a new way to gauge the economy of ancient settlements from structural measurements.
  — Matthew Shaer, Smithsonian, 22 Feb. 2018
• Producers and directors whose story lines call for gritty hovels, classic capes, bungalows, grand beachfront properties and every sort of residence in between have an incentive to make do with the housing stock in the five boroughs.
  — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024