Sentences with phrase «tin shack»
A "tin shack" refers to a small, simple dwelling made of tin or other thin metal sheets, usually in poor condition. Full definition
Improvising a corrugated tin shack on Drumm Street, he went right on selling dungarees, pilot coats and rubber boots.
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I encountered a grassy area the size of a football field surrounded by tin shacks.
These people have nothing — families live in one - room corrugated tin shacks alongside a creek flowing with open sewage.
You can buy a cell phone or a Coca - Cola out of a thatch - and - tin shack off the road.
It's not so easy to find but it helps to be looking for an actual tin shack.
South Africa is a first world country in the midst of a third world — just down the road from the glitzy malls, BMWs and upmarket mansions are dilapidated tin shacks and RDP houses
On the red - earth streets with sewage ditches dug along rows of corrugated tin shacks is the home where Phiona Mutesi (played by Madina Nalwanga) lives with her mother Nakku (Lupita Nyong» o), older sister Night (Taryn «Kay» Kyaze), and younger brothers Brian (Martin Kabanza) and Richard (Ivan Jacobo and Nicolas Levesque).
For Barrett Ward, executive director of Mocha Club, this «cataclysmic» experience occurred on a trip to Peru, when he saw a little girl emerging from a tin shack.
Khayalitsha, the latest, has neat rows of cinder block and corrugated tin shacks, with plumbing.
Amid the corrugated tin shacks and disheveled huts, the children shouted and climbed over one another as they kicked the ball up and down the road, stopping occasionally to reinflate the sagging sphere.
Before leaving for the Games, Thugwane, 25, earned about $ 250 a month tending roads at the mines and lived with his wife and four children in a tin shack in the impoverished black settlement of Bethal.
We're back in Addis now, with its crazy slow - moving traffic, tons of construction, brightly colored corrugated tin shacks, miles of market stalls and crowds of people walking everywhere.
By Jillian Lauren We're back in Addis now, with its crazy slow - moving traffic, tons of construction, brightly colored corrugated tin shacks, miles of market stalls and crowds of people walking everywhere.
If the rains come at night, this population of poor traders, craftspeople and retailers are flooded out of their tin shacks.