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Example sentences for "shack"

Lexicographically close words:
shabbier; shabbiest; shabbily; shabbiness; shabby; shackle; shackled; shackles; shackling; shacks
  1. One day, when they went up to visit him, he refused to let Romulus and Remus into the shack or near his kennels.

  2. I camped out one night with my father in an old shack over Oakdale way," asserted Jimmie.

  3. At noon they took the dogs back to the shack to enjoy a rest and a dry bone apiece, while Sam cooked and served a delicious luncheon of buckwheat cakes, bacon, and cocoa.

  4. They were not able to go up to his shack very often for one reason or another, and Jack, at least, was not so anxious to do so as he had been.

  5. This trip to Sam's shack was the first of a number of excursions thither which Sam seemed to enjoy as much as the boys and the dogs.

  6. Moses, meantime, had pitched his own tent and made his own bed, and now they all turned to to help him knock together a rough shack to serve as cook house and pantry.

  7. He lived like a hermit in his little shack in the woods and his peculiarities had set him somewhat apart from the world of men.

  8. Oh, yes, he's that queer fellow that lives all alone in a shack in the woods off on the Oakdale Road.

  9. They could hardly wait for the next Saturday to come, when they could go up again to Sam's shack and visit their beloved dogs.

  10. Would the miserable shack do for a temporary refuge for the outcast?

  11. While the carpenters were knocking together the shack we're in now, he put in the time wandering around the plant and looking as if he had lost something and forgotten what it was.

  12. He walked beside her to the door of the miserable log shack under the second cliff, still strangely shaken, but striving manfully to be himself again.

  13. Her life had often crossed that of river people, and although she had never been on the river, she had frequently gone visiting shanty-boaters who had landed in for a night or a week at the bank opposite her own shack home.

  14. She lived in a shack up the Bottoms near St. Genevieve, and he tried to flirt with her, but she wouldn't flirt.

  15. And brought up in that shack on Distiller's Island?

  16. He stalked down a ridge into that split-board shack of infamy.

  17. Anyway, he hobbles back to the crossin' and eases the shack down where he found it.

  18. Mr. Havens and Mr. Fordham were busy at the corrugated iron shack that served as an office.

  19. The interior of the sheet-iron shack which the Indian youth had occupied was afire.

  20. The latter had gone to Rafe Peters' shack for a sandwich.

  21. The sides of the shack were red-hot, and he could not get near to it; but with a long pole he managed to poke something out of the fire.

  22. In the little shack where the Despatch was getting out its first paper, full of advertisements for the lost and offers of shelter to the outcast, he turned up at midday.

  23. After a moment's scrutiny he turned and sent a look, singularly alert, over the shack and the road beyond.

  24. He left Garland in the woodshed, reading by the light that fell in through the open door, and went to the shack to cook supper.

  25. She was back in the old shack in Inyo where her mother had died, and it was raining.

  26. There were cracks in the thin, boarded walls, from which a faint resinous odor exuded, but it failed to hide the sour smell of the wet sawdust upon which the shack was built.

  27. He undoubtedly pays the rent of a shack in the neighborhood I mentioned.

  28. Sometimes, until I could scarcely crawl back to my tent or the sleeping-shack at night.

  29. Sounds issued from the shack as of voices raised in quarrel, and Connie and 'Merican Joe exchanged glances as they passed on to their camping place.

  30. If we don't, them birds over in the thinkers' shack is in for more overtime.

  31. Wonder who stuck this shack up here," smiled McKeever, glancing inquisitively around the room.

  32. Guess the best way would be to go straight to the shack and figure out what to do when I get there.

  33. I will chain you up on an ants' bed mit a rope like a tog; do you not hear that Shack Denver voss dett?

  34. As has been said, the Sunday evening service at Tolley's old shack was not so formal as the morning session.

  35. Joe Hurley looked grave, however, when he rejoined his friends in the little shack of an office.

  36. The storekeeper paid a nominal rent for the shack six months in advance, agreeing to make such repairs as the place might need himself.

  37. Joe Hurley did not propose to live in a bachelor shack in the purlieus of Canyon Pass all his life--by no means!

  38. If you paved the shack floor with gold eagles Tolley wouldn't bite.

  39. Since the first shack had been built here at the junction of the two forks, the enemy had been in power; and it was now well entrenched.

  40. I've got my shack here, I got my fur business, and they're still fond of whiskey up North!

  41. What do you want for your shack and the lake?

  42. Noiselessly as shadows, the boys crept up to the shack until they were close enough to hear voices inside.

  43. The radio boys scattered them head over heels as they made for the table, and the shack was a pandemonium of shouts, cries, and the crash of overturned chairs.

  44. He means that tumbled-down shack where Mr. Mooney keeps his garden tools.

  45. A scarcely audible click, and the shack was plunged in darkness.

  46. Well, you know that crowd often hang out in that shack back of Terry Mooney's house--the place that his father built to keep an automobile in, and then could never get enough money to buy the automobile.

  47. At the end of the shack opposite the window were two large doors, both closed.

  48. Then I went down to my little shack and put on my other clothes.

  49. I wasn't tired, so I went away, and climbed back up to the little shack and the mine that I hated now.

  50. You don't suppose this boob will try to fight, do you, when he knows Jeffries will burn the shack over his head if another railroad man is attacked in it?

  51. We can burn the boob's shack down--of course: but if you go in there alone the ensuing blaze would be of no particular interest to you.

  52. They also built of logs and rough boards a shack for winter use, doing the work whenever they had plenty of time.

  53. There are too many rabbits at our shack now.

  54. I'll stay at your shack to-night, and if your cousin is at home, I'll have a visit and a talk with him.

  55. To the right, farther down and half hidden in the grass, lay the remains of a board shack which had fallen in.

  56. With the boards taken from the tumble-down shack an extra shed had been built near the cabin, and the porch repaired and strengthened.

  57. It was the day before he left that Hyde, noticing smoke rising from the shack across the lake, paddled over to exchange a word or two with the Indian, who had evidently now returned.

  58. You'll have it all to yourself except for an old Indian who's got a shack there.

  59. Imagine the water to be land, and yourself living in a one-room shack or a little low sod hut bewhiskered with growing grass.

  60. After we left, he went back to the shack and told the cook he had changed his mind,--that he was going to die.

  61. We kept near the shack the next day, some of the boys always with him.

  62. His mind became a complete blank as the shack hove into sight along the valley.

  63. He opened the door of the shack and called "Tom!

  64. Wandering in the back areas at noon, she noticed a rough shack bearing an obviously new announcement "For Sale.

  65. He stumbled out of the shack like a terribly sick man.

  66. When he arrived back at the shack after the usual vain hunt for gold, she gave him but a quick glance, sufficient enough to convey to her that he had failed for the hundredth time.

  67. If it was a shack it'll be very useful--to us.

  68. The shack was sold in a few minutes to the highest bidder.

  69. Since that fierce passage of words in the shack she had made no single reference to the future.

  70. She put down her sack, and decided to get some food in the town with the few dollars she possessed, before taking refuge in the shack from Jim, who would doubtless return by the evening.

  71. Hating sentimentality and fearing any demonstration of such, he had packed up secretly and left the rough shack by the Topeka Mine for the comparatively Arcadian comforts of the hotel in the township ten miles back.

  72. The shack seemed full of a strange presence, a ghostly kind of ego that made itself felt.

  73. They found the shack ten minutes later, nestling in a hollow, with its chimney still smoking.

  74. Trembling and ill, he crept into the shack to find her vanished to the inner room.

  75. There was a stove in the shack and Stan edged close to it.

  76. He was taken to a small shack a few yards back from the canal.

  77. Here was a small and dismal shack from whose solitary window a feeble ray of light beamed.

  78. So have I lived here all my life; but I'll be darned if I would want to sit in this shack all day, the way the wind whistles through it.

  79. Leave it to the AJ and whatever other outfit there is to send pupils, and Mary Hope could teach in the Whipple shack till it rattled down on top of them.

  80. Tom observed, turning as Mary Hope pushed the door shut against the wind that rattled the small shack and came toward him shivering and pulling her sweater collar closer about her neck.

  81. Seems like they think that shack is good enough for women and kids; but I wouldn't keep pigs in it, myself, without doing a lot of fixing on it first.

  82. Tom pulled loose and lifted the hat that he had just tightened, and as she backed from the doorway he entered the shack without quite knowing why he should do so.

  83. And why had they burned the Whipple shack and all the school books, so that she could not have school until more books were bought?

  84. From the bent stovepipe of the shack a wisp of smoke was caught and bandied here and there above the pole-and-dirt roof.

  85. All I done, Belle, was to ride up to the Whipple shack to see who was camped there.

  86. True, there was no schoolhouse, but there was a deserted old shack on the road to Jumpoff.

  87. For all that he had timed his trip so as to arrive at the Whipple shack just about the time when Mary Hope would be starting home.

  88. Mary Hope would never admit to herself that this small detail interested her, but she thought of it the moment Jim Boyle suggested the old Whipple shack as a schoolhouse.

  89. As I remember the old town in 1860, there were several shack stores.


  90. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    box; cabin; camp; cottage; crib; gatehouse; hole; hovel; hut; hutch; kiosk; lodge; outbuilding; outhouse; pavilion; shack; shanty; shed; stall; swagger; swagman; vagabond