ramshackle
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For the last three years, she and her six children have been living with other internally displaced people at a ramshackle old feed processing plant in the capital, Yaoundé.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
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
He stared at the ramshackle barn and the peeling paint on the weathered house, sights that should have been entirely foreign to him, but weren’t.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Vocabulary lists containing ramshackle
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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