rickety
Example Sentences
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Many of the buildings were rickety and crumbling, with only one or two stories.
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Will leaned his rickety bicycle against the wall.
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There were sturdy wooden boxes near the tent; there was a small rickety table and a chair; there was a lamp.
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Rupert was a rickety old man, barely able to walk; yet he still worked with a pickax in the mines.
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But after this defeat, the fighter who once drove around Leeds in his rickety car trying to sell tickets can leave knowing he gave the sport everything he had.
From BBC
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