How to Use shanty in a Sentence

shanty

noun

• Meanwhile, Sea of Thieves brought the sea shanties to the show floor.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2023
• The shanties were pops and flecks of color in the distance.
  — Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• The men are singing ‘Shenandoah,’ which is a sea shanty.
  — Jessi Virtusio, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• That’s enough to heat a wall tent, a camper, or an ice fishing shanty.
  — Ben Romans, Field & Stream, 17 Nov. 2020
• The freezer is in Dozier's Eastpointe garage, along with his 25-foot boat and his ice shanty.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
• Lil Nas X will need to see off the challenge of a sea shanty to secure a second straight week atop the U.K. singles chart.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2021
• Outside the window of my ice shanty, Steve and Rigby sat side by side in a haze of windblown snow.
  — Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2021
• Some of the shanties’ themes had presciently focused on the warming planet.
  — Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• My old green pop-up fishing shanty broke down this season.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 2 Jan. 2021
• But perhaps the shanty trend speaks to something deeper.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2021
• Yen Corpuz’s eight young siblings and cousins who share a shanty in one the poorest slums of Manila were all enrolled in schools at the start of this year.
  — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 8 June 2020
• This tiny shanty is modeled after the many small houses that dot the shores of Wisconsin’s lakes.
  — Jeanette Hurt, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• The only light in the shanty comes up from underneath the water, where sunlight beams through the ice and is reflected up through the cut hole.
  — Amanda Ogle, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2021
• For those who are unaware of what a sea shanty is, its a type of work song that were sung to the beat of rhythmical labor on large merchant ships.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2021
• Watchers of The North Water, anyway, will be rewarded at the end of nearly every episode with the singing of a sea shanty over the credits.
  — Jeva Lange, The Week, 14 July 2021
• The remix of the sea shanty, featuring 220 Kid and Billen Ted, makes its move to the summit after seven consecutive weeks in the Top 3.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2021
• There was a 19th-century fishing village, a ghost ship, a sea shanty.
  — New York Times, 10 July 2021
• While there are snippets of the original music, the film forgoes songs other than a few shanties the pirates croon when not trying to kill Pan and his mates.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
• He was raised in extreme poverty in a shanty town outside Buenos Aires, and became a drug addict with deep connections to the mafia.
  — Hasit Shah, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2020
• Any ice shanty owner that doesn't remove their shanty by the deadlines can face penalties.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2024
• Since up to three lines can be used at a time for ice fishing in Michigan, some anglers put two tip-ups near their shanty and add bait to a rod and reel in their spearing shack for the third line.
  — Richard P. Smith, Outdoor Life, 9 Jan. 2023
• One of the original purposes of the sea shanty was to create a sense of community and shared purpose.
  — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021
• The statement shows up in the catchy chorus of a New Zealand sea shanty—a song that would’ve been belted out by 19th century sailors at work, and is now seeing a resurgence.
  — Danielle Hall and Alia N. Payne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2021
• Randal builds a lean-to version of Quick Stop, like a bodega-shanty version, and becomes the unofficial mayor of this town.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2022
• The hot and sweaty space, a shanty made of wood pieces and tin, holds a crowd of locals swaying drunkenly to the music, sipping strong drinks, and dancing despite the temperature.
  — Korsha Wilson, Bon Appétit, 11 Mar. 2024
• The family of seven had just about half an hour to pack their belongings and leave before their shanty house and about 200 others were reduced to rubble.
  — Chinedu Asadu, ajc, 23 June 2023
• In Mukteshwar, a popular hill station in the state, five laborers died when a wall collapsed on their shanty.
  — Biswajeet Banerjee, ajc, 20 Oct. 2021
• Her family’s shanty had been reduced to ash, along with their possessions.
  — Jon Emont, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2021
• But the hillside shanty where de la Cruz and his unemployed neighbors are waiting out the quarantine aren’t poor enough to qualify.
  — Franklin Briceno, The Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2020
• Colorado tried to seal its border from the climate refugees; in California, they were funneled into squalid shanty towns.
  — Meridith Kohut, ProPublica, 15 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 22 Jul 2024