rickety

How to use rickety in a sentence

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.

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.

THE BOX-CAR CHILDRENGERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER

On one side loomed a huge tank, to the brink of which a rickety wooden ladder invited the explorer to ascend.

DOPESAX ROHMER

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985