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
The project is in a tumbledown section of Oildale, situated between an optical lens store and aquatic pet shop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
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
On a steamy day in July 1799, a member of a French military work detail at a tumbledown fort in the Nile Delta made an unusual discovery.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2021
Toward evening, the coachman called out, "Nottaway!" and he reined his team outside a tumbledown inn, built against what resembled the ruins of a giant's cottage.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
