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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• For decades, Father Joe lived in a shack, like his neighbors.
  — Seth Mydans, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
• The sink was full of dirt and plants, displayed at a roadside shack called Sunset Junque.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 July 2022
• Because of its small size, customers won’t be able to go inside the shack.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
• When the weekend came around and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, the two sat on the porch of their shack and talked around the dead air-conditioner.
  — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• The son of a security guard and a food worker, he was raised in a dirt-floor shack.
  — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 29 May 2021
• Was this unassuming shack the first piece of his empire?
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 26 May 2020
• The lobster roll, at home in no-frills seafood shacks and the fanciest restaurants.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
• Most of the resulting shochu is sold straight from his wooden shack.
  — WSJ, 25 May 2021
• Schneps and Lochak spoke to a couple of thin, bearded men, one of them living in a shack in the middle of a wheat field.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• Bus drivers would be allowed to use the guard shack’s restroom.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• For more casual food, the north end of Green Lake is home to the Beach House snack shack, serving basics like pizza, burgers, chicken tenders, and ice cream.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2024
• Bennett asked for help with his business and shared his story of his shack burning down and issues with not having a license to operate.
  — Dana Munro, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024