rackety

Example Sentences

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That finished him as an international footballer, but signalled the start of a nomadic, rackety coda to his career.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2023

Eshun still sets off before dawn each morning to deliver fresh bread to faithful customers from a rackety delivery van held together with pins and wire.

From Reuters • Mar. 11, 2022

A short-story master resurrects his rackety Edwardian childhood.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2022

A lampoon founded in 1986, Spy immediately took its place within ’80s New York, a city giving itself over to the rackety energies of the vulgar and profane.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2020

I realized I’d been had about one second before that rickety, rackety, falling-down outhouse tipped on its side.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney