rickety in English

adjective
1
(of a structure or piece of equipment) poorly made and likely to collapse.
we went carefully up the rickety stairs
2
(of a person) suffering from rickets.

Use "rickety" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "rickety" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "rickety", or refer to the context using the word "rickety" in the English Dictionary.

1. " Rickety rackety. "

2. Careful! That chair's a bit rickety.

3. The staircase was old and rickety.

4. She slowly climbed the rickety wooden steps.

5. He was precautious in crossing the rickety bridge.

6. I saw him padlock the rickety door behind us.

7. We climbed up two flights of rickety wooden stairs.

8. The refugees put to sea in five rickety rafts.

9. • Her rickety Composure had nothing whatever to do with him

10. It stood on four rickety legs in a weedy yard.

11. He followed her up a rickety staircase to a squalid bedsit.

12. The rickety bridge is one that's kind of a rope bridge.

13. In the early 1970s, Ford introduced a rickety compact called the Maverick.

14. We climbed up the rickety wooden stairs which led to the third floor.

15. A trio of rickety buses takes us to our floating hotel, the Hatshepsut.

16. Along the valley, the old man wanders off from his allotment into a small rickety shed.

17. It shared them with the rickety railway line which ran parallel to the road.

18. There was nothing but an old, rickety fence between the playground and the water.

19. This entire rickety structure was hanging from the limb of an enormous leafy tree.

20. She remembered half way down the rickety ladder stairs, but for would have been a final indignity.

21. Bobsledding has evolved tremendously since early daredevils negotiated rickety, modified wooden sleds down icy runs in Europe

22. Long Bridge in those days was quite a rickety wooden structure, which shook as you walked across.

23. These farm-worker children weed cotton fields, pick lettuce and cantaloupe and climb rickety ladders in cherry and apple orchards.

24. Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night.

25. Though the bridge is a bit rickety(sentence dictionary),there is no immediate danger in walking over it.

26. 26 Vechey's corpse lay in the centre of the tower near a rickety hut, formerly used by guards on sentry duty.

27. 26 Off we went to a rickety bar in Sabinal Mextown and spent an hour sopping up the brew.

28. 4 There used to be a rickety vending machine at Manchester and Vermont that held a Socialist Workers newspaper.

29. Many are shacks of corrugated iron over a rickety timber frame, held together by large nails driven through flattened beer-bottle caps serving as washers.

30. • Which of course reminds me of the blind man and Cripple riding happily together across our green countryside on that rickety train

31. Which of course reminds me of the blind man and cripple riding happily together across our green countryside on that rickety train.

32. To make or assemble roughly or hastily the stranded hikers cobbled together a rickety shelter for the night Synonyms for Cobbling (together or up)

33. Discover Man in the Sea Museum in Panama City Beach, Florida: A graveyard of Bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

34. Back in the early 1990s, I was proudly escorted to the happening place at the time: a poky bar in the diplomatic neighborhood, featuring plastic stools and rickety tables.

35. The members of the expedition had to jump from the hovering helicopter onto the rickety landing pad that was rocking like a canoe in choppy water due to airblasts from the rotor blades.

36. Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night... Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes.

37. At times, it was nerve-racking, especially when two buses going in opposite directions crossed a rickety bridge at the same time, passing so close that there was hardly room for a piece of tissue paper between them.

38. Bancal (feminine singular Bancale, masculine plural Bancals, feminine plural Bancales) bandy-legged (of person) rickety, wobbly (of table etc.) shaky, unclear, illogical; Further reading “Bancal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

39. ‘Bleary-eyed business travellers’ ‘You turn over in your half-sleep and try to read the numbers, but they blur before your Bleary eyes.’ ‘The rocking of the rickety, old train and the whoosh and whir of the wheels teased our weary bodies and Bleary eyes.’

40. Finally, the beneficiaries mostly appreciated GNASSM-Aswim and Solidaridad WA donation to them and also called on Government and Development Partners to follow suit with support, especially the provision of life jackets; as they have to sail across the River Offin before they can access the mining site in a rickety canoe daily without life jackets.