rattletrap

Example Sentences

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“I already spoke with her. She’s on board. She told me you could come with us or wait for her. She has to finish up a couple of things here, and then she’ll follow in that rattletrap car of hers,” he says, smiling.

From Literature

And he called our car a rattletrap, so he had to have seen it.

From Literature

But as Charlie hits the highway in her rattletrap Plymouth Barracuda, “Poker Face” takes a lighter turn, one you might recognize from the guest-star-laden procedurals of the ’70s and ’80s.

From New York Times

City leaders were hellbent on a “bold modernization,” as one 1963 headline put it, razing rattletrap buildings for their version of a paved paradise with its million-dollar view of mountains and Puget Sound.

From Seattle Times

When I decided to leave The New York Times for a new career as a college professor in my home state of Texas, I realized we were going to have to get our cars across the country, including my rattletrap of a 2008 Smart.

From New York Times