How do you use the word "hut" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hut": There is a hut below the bridge. There is a hut at the back of our house.

Hut Meaning

/hʌt/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.

nounA small wooden shed.

Sentence Examples

There is a hut below the bridge.

There is a hut at the back of our house.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The explorers built a small ____ from branches and leaves to sleep in during the storm.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The simple wooden ____ in the mountains provided much-needed shelter for the hikers.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English *hutte, hotte, from both Old English hōd and Old English hȳdan (“to hide”) and influenced by Anglo-Norman hute or hutte, from Middle French hutte, from Old French hute (“hut”), hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ, *hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”). Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), Saterland Frisian Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"And in his Hut, when hee to rest doth take him, Hee sleeps, till Drums or deadlie Pellets wake him." — 1625, Nicholas Breton, “An Untrained Souldiour”, in Characters and Essayes, Aberdeen: Edward Raban, page 31:

"[…] I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like," — 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XX, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 341:

"There was an oil lamp in all the four huts on Okonkwo’s compound, and each hut seen from the others looked like a soft eye of yellow half-light set in the solid massiveness of night." — 1958 June 17, Chinua Achebe, chapter 11, in Things Fall Apart, New York, N.Y.: Astor-Honor, published 1959, →OCLC, part 1, page 99:

"[…] commonly the Captaines, after their souldiers are hutted, build Hutts in the place, where their tents stood," — 1631, Samuel Marolois, translated by Henry Hexham, The Art of Fortification, Amsterdam: John Johnson, Part 2, Figure 124 & 125:

"[…] the scite of the New Town, where divisions of the 17th and 20th light dragoons had hutted themselves." — 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 6, p. 200:

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