tumbledown
Example Sentences
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A trip to the mailbox could become a tumbledown Niagara Falls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
You can see how from Abu Khaled's tumbledown farmhouse, a bumpy few minutes' drive from the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2023
He crusaded to restore the state’s tumbledown missions and built the city’s first museum, the Southwest, where he housed his matchless collection of artifacts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
KAMAKWIE, Sierra Leone — In the tumbledown concrete room that has been commandeered as this sleepy African trading center’s Covid-19 vaccination headquarters, a battered freezer holds stacks of boxes with dozens of small glass vials.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
He was living on a slightly tumbledown horse farm in northern Missouri, sitting on the back porch in jeans and a cutoff T- shirt.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
