tumbledown

Example Sentences

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A trip to the mailbox could become a tumbledown Niagara Falls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

You can see how from Abu Khaled's tumbledown farmhouse, a bumpy few minutes' drive from the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2023

The piles of tumbledown bricks on Long Beach streets took laborious weeks to clear away.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2023

The saga in Welcome, an agglomeration of tumbledown farmhouses and newly built homes roped together by winding country roads, highlights several enduring American loves: guns, conspiracy theories, property rights and fruitless litigation.

From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2022

It stood just ac ross from the cobhoust, a tumbledown shed full of stuff left there in Grandpa Dowdel’s time.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck