Sentence examples for modest huts from inspiring English sources
In the rush to exploit the silver, the first Spanish colonisers occupied the locals' homes, forgoing the typical colonial urban grid and constructing makeshift accommodation that evolved into a chaotic mismatch of extravagant villas and modest huts, punctuated by gambling houses, theatres, workshops and churches.
A few years ago the houses here were made of mud and thatch, says Jjakira, as he walks past modest huts of brick and corrugated iron roofs.
MIAMI — Tania Julin remembers hearing the distinct sound of feet racing through the dark Panamanian forest moments before armed masked men burst through the door of the modest hut she shared with her husband.
There are various encounters along the way with the likes of Tony the Outlaw, who is too preoccupied with home improvements on his modest hut to be bothered with actual outlawing, and the Locum of the Lake: "They needed somebody to cover.
Deciding to live like the people they strove to serve, the activists had moved to a modest hut in Dev Dungri and begun subsisting on the minimum wage at the time, 15 rupees a day.
I distinctly remembered them wandering, unannounced, into my modest student hut at the research station, squabbling over looted bread all those years ago.
She lived alone in a small hut.
The 25 cottages, each sleeping between two and five, range from house-sized villas to more modest "super deluxe" huts, complete with en-suite bathrooms and retractable walls.
Even the smallest and most modest of bamboo huts often carries a red banner on its roof – the colour of Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD – and the posters advertising her rival, USDP candidate U Soe Min, do not help.
There were modest pre-fabricated huts built as part of a temporary, emergency building programme.
