Hovels is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HOVELS in dictionary:

VERB:
• HOVEL, to live in a wretched dwelling
NOUN:
• a small squalid or simply constructed dwelling
• an open shed or outhouse, used for sheltering cattle or storing grain or tools.
• a conical building enclosing a kiln.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to live in a small, miserable dwelling

Words related to HOVELS

hovel11 hoveled14 hoveling15 hovelled15 hovelling16 hovels12

Words that contain HOVELS

shovels13 shovelsful19

How to use HOVELS in a sentence

• Others crowd round the sanctuary of the churches, and dwell there in mean hovels.
• The inhabitants of towns and of the country live in rags in miserable hovels.
• Mean hovels and shuttered booths flanked it, but at the end a tall house stood.
• The remainder of the troops, three thousand in number, are quartered in barracks, or rather mud hovels, at some distance from the palace.
• The houses of the lower classes are miserable hovels, built of wood or brick.
• Half an hour later I reached Murcens, only inhabited nowadays by a few peasants in two or three scattered hovels, which are nevertheless called farms.
• Other cottages were hovels, through the broken roofs of which poured the rain, and wherein rheumatism and ague lived with the dwellers.
• The place proved to be a collection of poverty-stricken hovels built in a circle, of the native tapia, which was crumbling to pieces through age and neglect.
• There are wretched hovels in that town with wicked and criminal inmates.
• We make for him a house which is as a mansion set amid hovels and for the building thereof the widow must set aside portions of her weekly old age pension.
• The river Fergus flows through Ennis, but it is broader and deeper at Clare Castle, a village of ordinary Connaught hovels.
• And this was the outcome of an attempt to distribute the Valentians in holdings of respectable size and to make them live in houses instead of hovels.
• The east side of Broadway, during the rule of the Dutch, was thickly built up with dwellings of but one room, little better than hovels.
• He began with one room, and in 1853 was able to hire five houses, which he filled with the occupants of the wretched hovels in the vicinity.
• We now employ our wealth, our technical knowledge, our rich variety of materials for the purpose of building millions of imitation hovels in totally unsuitable surroundings.
• But, drawing nearer, we find the habitations are in reality miserable mud hovels, without windows, and tenanted by vermin and ragged poverty.
• They are low mud hovels, the scene within and without of dirt and disorder.
• In this country there was no risk of rotting in hovels or burning in bastions.
• The hand of mercy leads wealth to the hovels of poverty and sorrow.
• The rise of industries built the large cities, with palaces on one hand and hovels on the other.
• Other cottages were hovels, through the broken roofs of which poured the rain, and wherein rheumatism and ague lived with the human dwellers.
• Their homes were the most miserable hovels, chimneyless, filthy.
• They were merely hovels, but they were all sufficient for these people, who lived most of their lives out in the open.
• The township consists of about thirty small wooden houses, mixed up with many native hovels.
• It was in a little lane with no houses except two or three hovels.
• Suddenly our progress was arrested by terrifying screams proceeding from one of these hovels.
• They built their own mud hovels, planted their hedges, dug their ditches.
• When these people are free on Saturday afternoon and Sunday they are too exhausted to do anything but turn into their hovels to sleep.
• All the roofs of the hovels indeed were in very bad repair, and covered here and again with a double thickness of tarpaulin.
• Besides these, they have other mean hovels, which, I conceived, were only to sleep in.

Similar words containing HOVEL without suffix s

hovel11 shovel12 hoveled14 shovels13 behovely19 hoveling15 hovelled15 hoveller14 shoveled15 shoveler14 hovellers15 hovelling16 shovelers15 shovelful18 shoveling16 shovelled16 shoveller15 shovelfuls19 shovelhead20 shovellers16 shovelling17 shovelnose16 shovelsful19 unshoveled17 shovelboard20 shovelheads21 shovelnoses17 shovelboards21

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