rickety
Example Sentences
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We go up a rickety set of stairs and enter a wide room, roughly the same shape and size as the tea shop below.
From Literature
He ducked under a couple of long metal pipes being carried by two guys, and then stood aside as someone else made their way over a rickety network of wood planks with a wheelbarrow.
From Literature
The folding chair was rickety, but Owen managed to get his head and his good arm up through the hole.
From Literature
He writes, for example, that the guitarist James Blood Ulmer plays “shrill, disjointed fragments, nervous bits and rickety pieces tied together by a staggered but wryly swinging thematic sensibility.”
“And it has to be wood. Avoid rickety metal ones that fall over. Noisy!”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
