rickety

Example Sentences

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“And it has to be wood. Avoid rickety metal ones that fall over. Noisy!”

From The Wall Street Journal

And it’s a much more rickety machine than it first appeared.

From Salon

But her conceit that the Inter-Con’s trajectory can constitute, as the book’s subtitle asserts, “a people’s history of Afghanistan,” is rickety at best.

From The Wall Street Journal

The stairs leading to the door are uneven and rickety, feeding into a porch that has six wicker chairs—five upright, and one kicked over.

From Literature

Alas, the wagon was a rickety wooden affair.

From Literature