How to Use shanty in a Sentence

shanty

noun
  • His voice conjured cannons and sea shanties.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That’s enough to heat a wall tent, a camper, or an ice fishing shanty.
    — Ben Romans, Field & Stream, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Meanwhile, Sea of Thieves brought the sea shanties to the show floor.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Some of the shanties’ themes had presciently focused on the warming planet.
    — Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • There’s nothing like listening to a shanty in the summer breeze.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Any ice shanty owner that doesn't remove their shanty by the deadlines can face penalties.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Check out Fishtown, home to historic fishing shanties that now house cool small businesses.
    — Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
  • From an assessment of Stipe’s fecund beard, the two moved on to the subject of ship captains and sea shanties.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Her family’s shanty had been reduced to ash, along with their possessions.
    — Jon Emont, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2021
  • There was a 19th-century fishing village, a ghost ship, a sea shanty.
    — New York Times, 10 July 2021
  • This tiny shanty is modeled after the many small houses that dot the shores of Wisconsin’s lakes.
    — Jeanette Hurt, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Outside the window of my ice shanty, Steve and Rigby sat side by side in a haze of windblown snow.
    — Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2021
  • For those who are unaware of what a sea shanty is, its a type of work song that were sung to the beat of rhythmical labor on large merchant ships.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Milkbarn’s aesthetic feels like cottage-core meets sea shanty, which sounds pretty adorable on any baby.
    — Liv Birdsall, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Trapped at home, staring at their computers and phones, shanties offered people a common, joyful cause.
    — Longreads, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Fishing shanties must have reflectors on each side so snowmobiles won't crash into them at dusk or during snowstorms.
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The freezer is in Dozier's Eastpointe garage, along with his 25-foot boat and his ice shanty.
    — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The only light in the shanty comes up from underneath the water, where sunlight beams through the ice and is reflected up through the cut hole.
    — Amanda Ogle, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Still, the rich history behind the day of laughter and libations remains behind the surge of shamrocks and drunken shanties.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • In Mukteshwar, a popular hill station in the state, five laborers died when a wall collapsed on their shanty.
    — Biswajeet Banerjee, ajc, 20 Oct. 2021
  • While there are snippets of the original music, the film forgoes songs other than a few shanties the pirates croon when not trying to kill Pan and his mates.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
  • This word derives from a simple sea shanty, a song or phrase that sailors would repeat in order to coordinate their actions during a voyage.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Six shanties on stilts were damaged in a coastal village in Zamboanga del Sur province due to the quake and taller waves, officials said.
    — ABC News, 7 June 2026
  • Yen Corpuz’s eight young siblings and cousins who share a shanty in one the poorest slums of Manila were all enrolled in schools at the start of this year.
    — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 8 June 2020
  • Colorado tried to seal its border from the climate refugees; in California, they were funneled into squalid shanty towns.
    — Meridith Kohut, ProPublica, 15 Sep. 2020
  • He was raised in extreme poverty in a shanty town outside Buenos Aires, and became a drug addict with deep connections to the mafia.
    — Hasit Shah, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2020
  • But the hillside shanty where de la Cruz and his unemployed neighbors are waiting out the quarantine aren’t poor enough to qualify.
    — Franklin Briceno, The Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Since up to three lines can be used at a time for ice fishing in Michigan, some anglers put two tip-ups near their shanty and add bait to a rod and reel in their spearing shack for the third line.
    — Richard P. Smith, Outdoor Life, 9 Jan. 2023
  • This style blends metal subgenres with traditional sea shanties, accordions — accordions are rare in metal, bear in mind — tin whistles and steel drums.
    — Sofia Goldstein, SPIN, 2 June 2026
  • The family of seven had just about half an hour to pack their belongings and leave before their shanty house and about 200 others were reduced to rubble.
    — Chinedu Asadu, ajc, 23 June 2023

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