HOVEL in a Sentence
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46 example sentences for HOVEL, such as:
1. This hovel was only one story high.
2. What Marius now beheld was a hovel.
3. Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel.
4. Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel.
5. There was no bread in the hovel, but there was still tobacco.
2. What Marius now beheld was a hovel.
3. Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel.
4. Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel.
5. There was no bread in the hovel, but there was still tobacco.
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Meanings and Examples of HOVEL
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hovel
n. small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Classic Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1 The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble public house, some hovel, however lowly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
2 The lower town, in which he lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: he constructed two, one for girls, the other for boys.
3 Satan must have occasionally crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thenardier dwelt, and have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
4 This hovel was only one story high.
5 The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she thought Jean Valjean handsome, just as she thought the hovel pretty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
6 Week followed week; these two beings led a happy life in that hovel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
7 One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the uninhabited compartments of the hovel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT
8 I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, in a corner which no one ever looks into.
9 The chamber which the Jondrettes inhabited in the Gorbeau hovel was the last at the end of the corridor.
10 What Marius now beheld was a hovel.
11 There was no bread in the hovel, but there was still tobacco.
12 Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL
13 The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering it the effect produced on entering a cellar.
14 Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder Jondrette girl following him through the corridor.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS
15 Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel.
Example Sentence:
1 He wondered how poor people could stand living in such a hovel.