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rickety
adjective as in unsound, broken-down
Example Sentences
They were called “boat people,” crowding into rickety vessels, fleeing relentless poverty and the dictatorship of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier.
It’s also hilarious that this attempt at stabilizing its rickety notions of amateurism will force schools to become even more like businesses.
From rickety old strap-on blades to state-of-the-art high-performance skates, the range of options fits, and purposes are pretty vast.
The pioneers, rolling in rickety wagons across the prairie with all of their earthly possessions, headed for a better life.
The rickety elevator was a bit scary, making the tiny top floor apartment in Rome’s Monti neighborhood more of a sixth-floor walkup.
She looks at you and then points to a rickety wooden boat about twenty-five meters from where you stand.
There were taxis, called “hackneys,” which were rickety stagecoaches cast off by the rich and repurposed as transport for hire.
Ray gave Jay a shell, then stepped onto a small, rickety carousel in the comer of the churchyard and loaded up.
The going rate for life jackets on board the dangerously rickety vessels tops $200, whether for men, women or children.
"Yeah, all right," he mutters, then follows his brothers out of the room, down a rickety flight of stairs and into the crucible.
In the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.
So saying the lively urchin grasped his new friend by the hand and led him by a rickety staircase to the “rookeries” above.
This problem was solved by a native coming along driving a raw-boned horse before a rickety wagon.
He could hardly walk up the rickety front steps of the old tumble-down house, and his thirteen-year-old son had to help him.
On one side loomed a huge tank, to the brink of which a rickety wooden ladder invited the explorer to ascend.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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