How to use "shanty" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "shanty" in popular movie and book plots

  • When Bill learns that Trina is also homeless, he lets her stay at his ramshackle home in a shanty town.  - Man's Castle
  • They live in a shanty not very far away from the Zaragoza mansion.  - Familia Zaragoza
  • It narrates the time she spends in Marseilles and her eventual return to the shanty city, where she gives birth to the Hartani's child.  - Désert (novel)
  • Baba and Avinash are brothers who lives in a shanty house with their widowed mother, who makes a living as a housemaid.  - Aatish: Feel the Fire
  • Vexille awakens to find Tokyo is now a shanty town ruled by Daiwa.  - Vexille
  • Radha (Usha Kiran) is a 19-year-old poor girl living in a one-room shanty with her handicapped and bed-ridden father Sadhu Ram (Krishnakant).  - Patita (1953 film)
  • They are compelled to move to a shanty apartment.  - Thodisi Bewafaii
  • Shankar is a hoodlum who lives in a shanty hut with his pregnant wife, Kanta, and makes a living as a career criminal.  - Dharam Karam
  • One of her co-workers, Yutaka Uchikoshi, cares for Minami and visits her shanty when she misses work because her mother is sick.  - Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
  • All Earth's cities have been destroyed, and its survivors live in shanty towns and villages.  - Mirai Robo Daltanious
  • The film ends amidst scenes of a torrential thunderstorm hitting their shanty lodging.  - The Spring River Flows East
  • At one point Aldrick takes the microphone and says: "make no peace with slavery…make no peace with shanty towns, dog shit, piss.  - The Dragon Can't Dance
  • Their truck slowly makes its way through the dirt road between the shanty houses and around the camp's hungry-faced inhabitants.  - The Grapes of Wrath (film)
  • They take him to a squalid hut in a shanty town while bargaining with the authrities.  - The Honorary Consul
  • He leads them to a shanty town settlement at Rudheath and tells them to go to his family on Mow Cop once Thomas has recovered from his wounds.  - Red Shift (novel)
  • Inspector Chan Ka-Kui (or Kevin Chan in some versions) is part of the operation, along with undercover officers stationed in a shanty town.  - Police Story (1985 film)

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