rattletrap

Example Sentences

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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 • Oct. 17, 2021

Once, on a flight over Cuba, aboard a rattletrap former Soviet military aircraft, I sat in escalating alarm as the cabin filled with a weird mist.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2020

He lived in a shabby housing block in a field of identical housing blocks, drove a rattletrap Niva and told endless stories about his days as a paratrooper.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2018

There’s a rumble outside of tires on gravel, and here comes Phil, gray haired and grizzled, bothered and cantankerous, getting out of his rattletrap, beaten-up truck that he’d backed up to the store.

From Washington Times • Mar. 5, 2017

Gus’s old rattletrap of a car was in the driveway and the smell of spaghetti sauce drifted through the screen door.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor