Sentence examples for hovel I from inspiring English sources
When I arrived at the top floor flat in my best suit (not at all the hovel I had imagined, but a bourgeois flat full of paintings and antiques) Luise was approaching slowly down the length of her hallway in her presentation outfit of silk trouser suit and a gold toque.
The application process; the fear of not knowing whether I'd be accepted by the landlords (NYC living is cutthroat); the inability to square my expectations of the palace in the sky I wanted with the reality of the hovel I knew I'd eventually be living in… it all conspired to make life far more stressful than it needed to be.
The following morning in my rented hovel I wake up to a WeChat group message announcing I was an "embarrassment to both staff and clients".
I noticed with some disappointment that while the pressure was fine (definitely better than I had in any of my previous London hovels), I didn't get that head massage feeling I get from my non-eco shower head.
The term "little failure" was first spoken by my mother in my 100-square-foot, water-bug-friendly Lower East Side hovel, after I informed her that I was not going to law school but would instead try to be a writer.
March 23 , 2013Guardian executive hovel... 3.14am GMT I want a mini snow plough They're whizzing around the playing surface clearing snow at a furious pace.
For $149, I feared an airless, beach-hut-size hovel, but I'm pleasantly surprised.
I don't own one, because I live in a south London hovel where we stream everything we want to watch.
"I've cleaned out your hovel since the last missionary died here, so you should be all right.
Before leaving the soundproofed underground hovel that we collectively live and create in, I told the world's other music production nerds that I'd throw them a bone from the outside world a little shout out to let them know that there is still something for our kind on the surface world.
"I shudder to think what they think of our hovel in London," says my bemused brother-in-law.
