How to Use shack in a Sentence

shack

noun

• Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again.
  — Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2019
• Is this white shack with a smoke stains on the cinderblock the right place?
  — Joan Niesen and Laken Litman, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• George grew up in a small shack by the railroad tracks.
  — Omaid Homayun, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• The shack where Dom and Bruno spent the last night before they were killed.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
• The now-64-year-old farmer continues to live in the same shack.
  — Rob Perez, ProPublica, 26 Nov. 2022
• The crew noticed that the door had been ripped off the shack where the man was staying.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
• In the years since, the Smith shack has grown still more character-rich.
  — Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
• This seafood shack is the perfect place to find fresh shrimp straight from Shem Creek.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2021
• Consider one for a bike ride along the boardwalk and a walk to the snack shack.
  — Vogue, 18 June 2019
• When Muir last sailed through in 1899, this spot held a salmon cannery and a few shacks.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2018
• The bodies and the two living friends were found days later in a shack.
  — CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023
• Yet the white shack at the end of its eponymous pier has only been around since 2014.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2021
• Some spent all their savings building shacks to live in the desert.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
• Make time to visit one of the famous beach shacks for fresh conch and fish tacos.
  — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
• The chicken is grilled to order in the open-air shack outside.
  — Kevin Revolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2019
• What’s more, Carthage threatens to take the very shack in which Hester lives.
  — cleveland.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• Across the street, someone has erected a makeshift shack.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
• The museum, a 200-year-old shack with a tin roof, was once Hurt’s home.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
• The breakfast shack in the shape of a train car on Rue du Sablon is where the 101st Airborne was stationed.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 22 Dec. 2019
• The line of tourists waiting to order at this picturesque seafood shack ran down the block.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2021
• There’s so many little shacks along the route for lobster rolls.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• There’s no hoopla to speak of, just a small sign and a shack that serves as the visitor’s center.
  — Will McGough, CNN, 5 July 2021
• Firefighters found the boat shack at the end of the pier fully engulfed.
  — Bay City News, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024
• Cryan says golden light filtered through the 26 windows in the front and 16 windows in the rear shack.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2021
• The new spot feels a long way from Sol Food’s colorful 12-seat shack in San Rafael.
  — Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2022
• The new wife was hardhearted and lived a hoarder's life in a three-room shack in the country.
  — Eric Adler, kansascity, 17 June 2018
• For decades, Father Joe lived in a shack, like his neighbors.
  — Seth Mydans, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
• Lots of little mill shacks and people who worked hard, played hard.
  — Jody Rosen, Smithsonian, 14 June 2018
• The area had featured multiple shacks built out of wood and tarps.
  — Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
• The sink was full of dirt and plants, displayed at a roadside shack called Sunset Junque.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 July 2022

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024