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Sentence Examples Thanks to its basting heat, any old pocket of draughty pavement can now boast a rickety table and chairs. The Man Without a Past is a fable about strange, unanchored people, negotiating the rickety but promising world around them. A few soldiers in the black uniforms of the Pakistani Frontier Corps sit on rickety chairs, sipping green tea. Instead of days and nights on the river in a cool rickety skiff, we get half an hour in a common rowboat. Twelve children stand in bare feet holding onto rickety chairs, wearing hand-me-down leotards or torn underclothes. It's like a rickety house, with undulating floorboards and windows sloping down to one side. Carefully I climbed over the rickety fence, just wooden poles slung between uprights. He climbed down the steps, unlatched a door and began cranking a rickety wheel. How long has it been since you've hollered for that rickety three wheel convertible drive that spewed no smoke and burnt no holes in the pocket? Aradia, Gwydion and Faunus were made to sit in three rickety and spindly chairs before the thirteen members of the Society of Sorcerers. We pulled the levers on rickety rides and stood in sloppily painted game booths handing out Ping-Pong balls, bean bags, and squirt guns. The rickety iron stairs ran up the side of the building to the third and fourth storeys. Off a lane where market traders push rickety handcarts toward the bazaar, steps lead into the courtyard of a Shia religious school. Rain was pouring down on the steamy pavement and dripping off the edges of the rickety roofs. All that was there were a few sticks, like tree branches, on the floor, and a couple of rickety benches along two of the walls. The epicentre of Kerala's spice trade is the dusty straggle of rickety warehouses and open-fronted shops known as Jewtown. A little further down the coast we admire the rickety wooden fishermen's huts when a man in his seventies eating an orange starts chatting. There is simply no money in the till to fund rickety new programs that will quickly outgrow their ostensible resource base. He has a fine old office at the end of a faded, panelled corridor, five floors up by a rickety lift. My father took great risks as he led us over some really primitive swing bridges and rickety wooden ones. Show More Sentences Near an old iron radiator, a group of adults sit next to a rickety table, a huddle of fathers chatting and watching. We finally reached the edge of the deck, where other women and children were clambering aboard the small, slightly rickety looking lifeboat. Soot-stained paint peeled in great strips from rickety frame buildings, pocked with broken windows that wore rusty, torn screens. And after that was attended to, she drew up a chair to the rickety table, and told her fortune with an old deck of cards. Sam sat at the rickety old table, sipping a cup of coffee and skimming through the comics in the daily paper. He was laying under an army blanket, on a rickety cot, right arm bandaged, and the other pillowing his head. Well, Stanley Donwood's artwork reminds me of the playbills from Victorian music halls or a rickety theatre troupe travelling across the land. It was mounted about three meters above the water on a crude and rickety floating platform. He sets up a typewriter on a rickety wooden pontoon and moodily bashes away, staring out over the lake. I hung my cozzie and sarong on the rickety fan to dry as it churned the thick air, slowly. Failing to reach said sun, the accused instead flew the plane the distance of one hundred yards before crash-landing into a rickety chicken coop. Her home was little more than a shack, with rickety walls of thin, crumbly wood and with a wild, overgrown garden in the front. It is old, rickety, and decrepit, and miraculously survives the nine-day trip. Oil wells no longer require derricks, so west county's 7,000 rickety towers are largely gone. Geoff was waiting for him on the rickety wooden dock that stretched out into the river. He dozed lightly in a rickety wooden chair tilted precariously back on the far stable wall. A glorious shower of sunlight pours from the heavens onto a rickety old barn. He wrestles into position on a rickety picnic bench and glugs from a pint glass of orange squash. We head up a rickety flight of stairs, pass through a wooden door, and suddenly my jaw drops open. There are no green-covered trees to shelter us from the icy north blasts, just the weathered clapboard of this rickety house. Show More Sentences It's gutted, with big windows that aren't even boarded up, rickety balconies and a jungle of weeds out front. She was still smiling when she carried the two white coffees up the rickety wooden stairs. Countless times both of our pagers would go off and we'd tear down the rickety apartment stairs and he'd drive us both to the station. We knew that finishing the house would mean living through winter in a rickety, poorly insulated travel trailer. But you did actually go back and ascend this rather rickety structure and made some interesting discoveries. She then directed them to the fourth floor, giving them the choice of the stairs or a rickety lift. That would put an enormous stress on the rickety structure of Australia's political parties. He carries three twelve-pack cartons of beer across the yard to the house, climbs the front stairs and walks gingerly across the rickety veranda. After decades of rickety governments cobbled together from small parties, the 1997 constitution encourages larger and more stable groupings. Everyone knew that the stairs were rickety, that everything was old and rotting! The poverty-stricken young Joe rigged up a make-do punchbag in his rickety garden shed. She flung the cloth to the floor with rage and picked up the cage roughly, slamming it on a small rickety table harder than she had intended. Through shifting openings in the clouds of dust they could see that it was rungless in places, rickety, tottering. The man picked up a tack from a rickety wooden table and fastened the clipping to a paint-peeled wall. He didn't trust the crumbling clay-and-straw roof, much less the rickety wooden beams supporting the second floor. At the end of a dirt road, on a rickety bus parked in a teak grove, Tchomi-Kandi Mondja keeps her eyes on a small jar of liquid. Those rickety buses with steel bars sticking out just to load extra numbers should be banished from our roads. Much more needs to be done if the already rickety and threadbare credibility of the Church is ever going to be restored. Each of 40 cheap television monitors atop rickety tables shows a resident of the notorious ghetto talking directly into the camera. We've gone from delivering airmail in rickety monoplanes to checking e-mail in cushy cabins that roar over continents. Show More Sentences The rocking of the rickety, old train and the whoosh and whir of the wheels teased our weary bodies and bleary eyes. They ride around on rickety old bikes to make it obvious that their two-wheelers have spent decades rusting in the sea air. Director David Horan's staging brings you up three rickety flights of stairs above the Ha'penny Bridge Inn, into a small cramped room that smells of old, forgotten things. A transmarine voyage on the rickety ship would take more than a week. Back in Calgary the next day, we scramble across town on the rickety C-train to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology where logistics for the protest are being planned. She looks at you and then points to a rickety wooden boat about twenty-five meters from where you stand. Eventually arriving at his locker, he quickly spun the three numbers needed to unlock the combination lock and pulled upwards on the latch, opening the rickety metal door. The cabbie starts his rickety old taxi with a knock of a spanner. Meanwhile Tent City, the rickety collection of 50 squatter homes on the waterfront, was cleared away, and residents were offered temporary housing. And while there is some room for growth in this figure, we can guess that the system is a bit rickety and could be easily overwhelmed if the effort was concentrated. Each had a single twin bed, a rickety chair, and nothing else. We were staying in this cool, rickety, haunted hotel on Lake Michigan and just had an amazing time. She said they worked hard to complete the renovations, which transformed the building from a barn with a rickety stepladder and an old straw loft into the working gallery. Many live with nothing more than dirt floors and rickety outhouses. On August 9, a rickety fishing boat with 124 Syrians reached the southern coast of Calabria. Their rambling villa once a model of gracious elegance was now a paradise of dry rot and borer, with its skeletal verandah, rickety walls and warped weatherboards. Ray gave Jay a shell, then stepped onto a small, rickety carousel in the comer of the churchyard and loaded up. To get here, some have had to undertake long journeys on rickety buses or hitchhike on roads made unsafe at night by bandits. Their rambling villa, once a model of gracious elegance, was now a paradise of dry rot, with its skeletal verandah, rickety walls and warped weatherboards. The rickety beige structure is gone, and for the last few days workmen have been pounding enormous black stakes into the ground at regular intervals. Show More Sentences Tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stones will be on view at rickety little tables and stalls in the market, and in most cases the stones are genuine. And that forced me to get even higher up on the rickety ladder. And despite the best efforts of the socialist government, large-scale commercialisation overshadows the country's rickety network of tour operators. Ten years ago, when he first started patrolling his village beach for turtle poachers, he was chasing a few of them on his rickety old bike when they clotheslined him. Likewise, when they compare the high-speed TGV to the rickety transport system we have here, the value of a strong, responsible state becomes apparent. While we were tooling around up at the top of the ancient rickety ski lifts, I just had to check out the winching mechanism for tensioning the lift cables. During our university vacations, we took jobs as herds people in the Alps, running after cattle for three months out of the year and sleeping in rickety huts and stables. Then he wheeled him around and began pushing him lickety-split down the hall, the chair's rickety wheels squealing like a gimped grocery cart. From this turnpike he walked far, only to stand in icelight where the poets and brothers rocked in the rickety porch-dark of his body. Napoleon after 1799 paid for his expensive wars by multiple means, starting with the modernisation of the rickety financial system. We were warned away from the rickety old mine because of the danger of cave-ins. I purchased a Nikon FM, a couple of lenses, a flashgun, and a rickety tripod. Look one way and you will see rusted quonset huts, with the rickety PLC building looming in the background. Every piece of furniture, from the threadbare sofa to the rickety center table, seems kind of sad and sobby. There were gaps in the wooden slats which were packed with newspaper to stop the draught and the wife and I were in very rickety bunkbeds. Their conveyance is no handsome carriage, but a rickety dog-cart, unmistakably betraying its neighbourship to the carts and ploughs of some rural farmyard. As we heard about the shepherds in the fields, I thought back to the shepherd boy who had brought his two goats onto the old, rickety overland bus we had taken in rural China. It was a rickety concern, was unballasted, and looked as if, loosely thrown together, it had never filled its original mission and had been practically abandoned. Examples from Classical Literature The old Garibaldian threw up his head like a warhorse at the call of battle, and his rickety limbs were going towards the door. I say, Luke leant forward confidentially across the rickety green tin table, you know how snarky Pater was about him? There was a thud as his fist hit the rickety, squeaking table in the center of the room. Millions of babes died for lack of proper care, millions survived infancy to become rickety, misformed, wretched children. Kenny climbed a fence and entered the corncrib by a flight of rickety steps. On going up the rickety stairs, we were at once introduced to him, and received most friendlily. Alfred was provided with a rickety buggy and a spavined horse. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. Now break up that lopsided, rickety table there and make a fire. The castle is malarial, rickety, like many of Maeterlinck's buildings. I perceive the altar to be rickety and the Commandments damp. It was a stormy, windy night, such as raises whole squadrons of nondescript noises in rickety old houses. He lit a candle, and went cautiously down the rickety staircase. Then he flung himself into the rickety chair that was standing by the table and buried his face in his hands. Sometimes he hired a rickety bicycle and rode along the dusty road that led to the forest, and then lay down in a clearing. Another, a third, and a fourth gust rattled and shook the rickety frame. Under the washshed, which adjoined the kitchen, was a rickety door. No parents would willingly risk their children's lives in rickety boats or unventilated trucks if they didn't leave behind situations that were even worse. Think of the Skee Ball machines in Seaside where, for 50 cents, you can stand in a roisterous arcade and roll nine smooth wooden balls up a rickety ramp. She locked herself in and walked mechanically, with a woman's first impulse in a strange bedroom, to the rickety little table and the dingy little looking-glass. Show More Sentences The stand was a rickety, two-story affair, the second story open at the front, and here the judges could be seen debating as heatedly as the crowd beneath them. Through narrow, stinking alleys, black as Erebus, he groped, and then up a rickety stairway, at the end of which was a closed door and a tiny, unglazed window. Find more words! 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