ramshackle

Example Sentences

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The film is not about a tugboat operator, nor does it follow the life and times of the ramshackle group working at a service garage.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

I also inherited my beloved — at least by me — ramshackle family home that has not been lived in for more than 20 years.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

The hospital in Akobo -- a ramshackle collection of buildings, most without doors or windows -- has only one surgeon, now overwhelmed.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

I had asked him why Rajasthan's amber-hued capital - thriving with tourists drawn to its opulent palaces and majestic forts - looked so ramshackle.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

In 1931 Berkeley president Robert Sproul gave Lawrence this ramshackle campus building, slated for demolition, to house the new 27-inch cyclotron.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik