ramshackle in English
Use "ramshackle" in a sentence
1. Their first a ramshackle affair.
2. These ramshackle buildings have fallen down.
3. We need to reorganize this ramshackle system.
4. Ramshackle curtains cover warped window panes.
5. Their first car was a ramshackle affair.
6. The opposition criticized the government's ramshackle economic policies.
7. They joined with a ramshackle alliance of other rebels.
8. The University buildings were old, ramshackle and black with soot.
9. At the big ramshackle Baffles Hotel Rule dropped their bags.
10. No one had lived in the ramshackle farmhouse for years.
11. They entered the shop, which was a curious ramshackle building.
12. 29 The University buildings were old, ramshackle and black with soot.
13. They are living in a ramshackle old farmhouse in the woods.
14. I stalked amongst the booths and ramshackle dwellings built against the wall.
15. Damaged, broken-down, wrecked, beat-up (informal), ramshackle, dilapidated a Battered leather suitcase
16. Families lived in ramshackle huts . Electricity and fresh water were scarce . Unemployment was rampant.
17. The trucks were so ramshackle that it was amazing they could move at all.
18. I am talking about single-hulled oil tankers, ramshackle lorries and poorly-maintained noisy aircraft.
19. The ramshackle Whitley Council negotiating machinery is the other reason why the ambulance workers have lost out.
20. He told us of families who had built ramshackle premises on unused land only to see them bulldozed.
21. The only original thing at Ferry Farm today is a ramshackle shed where young George may have studied surveying.
22. Boom towns tend to have a lot of new construction, much of it ramshackle, to house the new residents and businesses.
23. The aim was to attract intelligent revolutionaries disgusted by the ramshackle right-wing local Labour Party and the once influential Communist Party.
24. Archducal •cackle, crackle, grackle, hackle, jackal, mackle, shackle, tackle •ankle, rankle •Gaskell, mascle, paschal •tabernacle • ramshackle •débâcle
25. After they had deposited their bags at the hotel, itself ramshackle and run-down, they had gone on to the hospital.
26. The ramshackle eight-seater at first did not take off because of a storm after which a pilot could not be found.
27. The ramshackle bus-boat back to Tekek around the northern tip of the island takes three hours, the same as the walk.
28. Suddenly broke, the formerly filthy-rich Rose family is reduced to living in a ramshackle motel in a town they once bought as a joke: Schitt's Creek
29. Posing haughty and bright-eyed above the grungy, ramshackle banks of the River Garonne near the city's industrial port, Bordeaux's signature wine museum is pure drama inside and out
30. And they keep dying of not-so-natural causes The charming town of Crestfall, Idaho, is home to ramshackle homes, farms, animals, pastry shops, mysteries, and, of course, a most lovely obituary writer.
31. Last Time I Saw Grace is a downright masterful collection that mixes downcast Balladry with pitch black humor, surreal wordplay with sharp observations.Like New Bums’ first effort, it’s got that elegantly woozy feel (think of the ramshackle …
32. ‘They are hideous examples of concrete Brutalism, dilapidated and badly-run and best demolished.’ ‘Various departments inhabit a ramshackle collection of buildings up and down Holloway Road, ranging through arts and crafts, neo-Georgian, Brutalism and postmodernist junk.’
33. ‘The family home was a large, ramshackle house with an untended and Brambly garden.’ ‘The five songs are Brambly, muscular math-metal slabs, but listening to pre-recorded versions of them is like looking at graffiti in an art gallery.’
34. “LIKE a large and startled family, living in a ramshackle old house whose front wall has suddenly collapsed, there seems to be a row going on in practically every room —with tambourine-bashing Jesus children screaming at elegant Anglo-Catholic homosexuals in black silk suits.” —The Sunday Times, London, April 11, 1993.