adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ramshackle building ( also a tumbledown building British English ) (= old and almost falling down )
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The farm was surrounded by tumbledown buildings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a row of ramshackle homes
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No one had lived in the ramshackle farmhouse for years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After they had deposited their bags at the hotel, itself ramshackle and run-down, they had gone on to the hospital.
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He told us of families who had built ramshackle premises on unused land only to see them bulldozed.
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The only original thing at Ferry Farm today is a ramshackle shed where young George may have studied surveying.
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The shepherds from the village of Debelde, a collection of ramshackle houses, have stayed with their flocks.
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The trucks were so ramshackle that it was amazing they could move at all.