Karin Slaughter

My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.

American Writer

Holly Willoughby

You wouldn't expect it to look at him, but in a life-threatening situation you should always turn to Phillip Schofield. On a desert island he would be perfect. Phil is very practical and would build you an amazing shack as well as keep you entertained with all his hundreds of stories.

English Celebrity

Chris Carmack

I lived in a little shack in Santa Monica, and I was working on 'The O.C.' and when it started airing, I took my laundry down to the laundromat like I always had, and so many people along the two blocks I walked and in the laundromat stopped me and asked me for photographs.

American Actor

Stokely Carmichael

Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.

American Activist

Chris Stapleton

I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.

American Musician

Christina Applegate

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

American Actress

Michael Keaton

My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!

Charlotte Bunch

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Viola Davis

My grandmother's house was a one room shack.

Georg Buchner

German Dramatist

Implies a lack of comfort or luxury, often temporary or improvised housing.

Housing Quality

Sometimes used nostalgically or affectionately for quaint or simple rural dwellings.

Rustic Charm

Can be used to signify economic hardship or poor living conditions.

Poverty Indicator

Used to indicate a short-term living arrangement, often informal.

Temporary Stay

Suggests living with someone else, usually in an intimate relationship.

Cohabitation

The verb form is very informal and best used in casual conversations.

Colloquial Casual

 so funny on my first story I was you know one-room shack on top of a mountain Guatemala when I heard the stairs creaking at night and then I hear this scratching under the door and then and the hair on back my head stood I grabbed the radio and called down the mountain to juan carlos and they said in spanish

Proof: Steve Winter on...

 Fortunately, in Sumatra, street food is a way of life. On almost every corner, vendors hock freshly made snacks from pushcarts or hole-in-the-wall shacks, like this one selling bika, a tea cake made from coconut. What is this? Really good. It's everyone's favorite.

Gordon Tries Bika PIPE...

 he's happy he's productive he's in a loving marriage so it turns out that embracing their quiet nature does not cause introverts to flee to a shack in the woods it empowers them to embrace the world but to do it for the first time on their own terms now ironically

Blueprint for a quiet...

 the purest form of Gaucho life she no pudiera ramirez in el campo if I couldn't live in the Campo the countryside an unthinkable thought I don't know what I'd do I'd rather live in a shack out here than in a palace in the city there's too much I'd miss the

Gauchos PIPE National...

 i lived in an eight by ten foot old shack and had no electricity no water and i had nothing and i was just there all day the main thing i interacted with was the weather and the animals so i started recording things just because it

He Spent 40 Years Alone...

 preserve the purest form of Gaucho life Shinobu lira we will a little camp if I couldn't live in a camp oh the countryside and unthinkable thought I don't know what I do I'd rather live in a shack out here than in a palace in the

 believes solitude helps preserve the purest form of Gaucho life if I couldn't live in the Campo a countryside an unthinkable thought I don't know what I'd do I'd rather live in a shack out here than in a palace in the city

The Way of the Gaucho PIPE...

 And they would cross the border into Lebanon, where they would find peace. But they would begin a life of grueling hardship and monotony. They had no choice but to build a shack

Let’s Help Refugees...

 little black boys and girls living in shotgun shacks or in housing projects in America cities feel like America is cheering them on that they are going to

How to disrupt...

 But, again and again, they were turned away. Soon, there was just one door that of a small, thatched shack.

Shack

A simple and small house or building, often made of weak materials.

Often appears as...

To live or stay in a shack or similar living space.

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