tumble-down

Example Sentences

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The actual Los Angeles was a fly-ridden settlement of tumble-down adobes, packs of feral dogs and one of the nation’s highest murder rates.

From Los Angeles Times

Off a dirt road, in a small village north of Tirana, there's a half-built, tumble-down, brick house.

From BBC

The city's High Street was a dirt road then, with tumble-down thatched cottages on one side and hoardings on the other.

From BBC

Their father “was very drunk. He could hardly walk up the rickety steps of the old tumble-down house, and his thirteen-year-old son had to help him.”

From The New Yorker

In the Belarussian part of the zone, tumble-down villages marked with yellow and red radiation warning signs have become hunting grounds for predators such as wolves and hawks.

From Reuters