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
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
“Million Dollar Quartet” has a pleasing modesty, taking place as it does on a single afternoon, Dec. 4, 1956, in the rattletrap recording studio of Sun Records in Memphis.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2010
And he called our car a rattletrap, so he had to have seen it.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
