rickety

Example Sentences

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And it’s a much more rickety machine than it first appeared.

From Salon

Many Rohingya have for years attempted in rickety wooden boats to reach neighbouring Thailand and Bangladesh, and Muslim-majority Malaysia and Indonesia, especially between November and April when the seas are calm.

From Reuters

More than that, their defense made Purdue look flustered, then unsure, then rickety, then lost.

From Washington Post

In the Cutro case, an aircraft with the European border agency, Frontex, sighted the rickety migrant boat, called Summer Love, 40 miles from the Italian coast, sailing without any “signs of distress.”

From New York Times

In the same center — a rickety army barracks of bunk beds, with a decommissioned tank out front — other men described how a bus had deposited them near an open field separating Ukraine and Moldova.

From Washington Post