RICKETY


Meaning of RICKETY in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a rickety bamboo fence

The staircase was old and rickety .

They sat around the card table on rickety old chairs.

We climbed up two flights of rickety wooden stairs.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A blur of rickety shops does heavy business seven days a week.

And despite the rickety infrastructure, computer networks are growing fast.

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

It evokes a precarious world which is so rickety that it may, at any time, collapse.

It was a rather rickety affair that creaked embarrassingly when I sat down in it and ever after when I moved.

On icy winter mornings, they bathe in foot tubs before the open flame of a rickety gas heater.

Suddenly, borne across the bridge on the muddy tide, came a rickety wooden construction like a toolshed.

They rode in the rickety wagon across the prairie until they reached a railroad track.

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