as in camp
a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling smoke rose from a fisherman's hut on the shore of the lake

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Recent Examples on the Web Sedona demanded the change before allowing the fast-food behemoth to open its little burger hut. Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024 The low, two-hundred-year-old fishing hut in its shaggy grey wood: its heavy logs, notched and cross-jointed. Tomas Tranströmer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024 Across the four-bedroom main house and warming hut, both clad in a clear vertical grain Alaskan yellow cedar selected to patina, Baird’s interior design was inspired as much by the exterior views as by the home’s history. Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2024 Similarly, in Southern France, the open-air site of Terra Amata was said to have the remains of ancient huts. Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hut 
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Noun
  • David and Benji’s grandmother had somehow survived internment in that camp, later emigrating to the United States.
    TIME, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Nacua suffered a knee injury during training camp, which was revealed to be a burst bursa sack in his knee.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • But one of the more challenging things to find are these shacks or more downtrodden homes that are falling apart, but are also in beautiful locations.
    Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Several neighborhoods are lined with broken wooden shacks and overgrown trees that weigh down the power lines.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
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  • Singapore said the fresh first- and business-class seats will have new in-flight entertainment but the carrier didn’t disclose many details about the new cabins.
    Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Purple lights swirled from the speaker covers and lighted the footwells; purple light filled the cabin via a single light bar across the dashboard and lights on the door panels.
    Scotty Reiss, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024

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“Hut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hut. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.

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