Examples of 'ramshackle' in a sentence

Meaning of "ramshackle"

ramshackle (adjective): Used to describe something in a state of severe disrepair or neglect. It implies a lack of maintenance or structure stability
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  • In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.
  • Badly or carelessly organized.
  • To ransack.

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Approached the ramshackle house with trepidation.
Makes the place look a ramshackle.
Even a ramshackle gutter drains water.
Now we only have this ramshackle mansion.
Anyone in your ramshackle organisation wishes to question that authority.
I have taken a risk on more ramshackle than that.
If a few ramshackle colonists in america.
This resulted in the station becoming increasingly ramshackle.
I overpaid for that ramshackle old factory.
A ramshackle old box.
I even own this old ramshackle ranch house.
No ramshackle plane this.
He glanced at the ramshackle ranch house.
Their goal is to drum up funding for rebuilding that ramshackle temple.
The truck proceeds to a ramshackle safehouse in the forest.

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From the beginning there had been an ancient and ramshackle cabin.
At the same time a ramshackle roof cladding was replaced.
He is merely an elected official in a ramshackle democracy.
And their ramshackle houses clamored for urgent repairs.
The eternal return of the same is a ramshackle machine.
Many buildings are ramshackle and no longer offer acceptable living conditions.
The country is especially susceptible to damage because of ramshackle infrastructure.
Polaris is a ramshackle old system.
The ramshackle vehicle looked like it would break down at any moment.
The shui became extremely ramshackle after its vacancy.
His very ramshackle farm was made of old boards of wood which mildewed.
There is a little ramshackle cabin.
He presided over a ramshackle purportedly socialist governmental and economic system.
They lived in a ramshackle hut.
Our roof is ramshackle and sheds water nicely in dry weather.
Even he began to tire of his old and ramshackle printer.
In this ramshackle building.
Lula is entirely willing to be the fifth wheel of the ramshackle bourgeois institutions.
Like painting a ramshackle house white over and over again.
The site was previously a lumber camp with two ramshackle buildings.
Slightly ramshackle vehicle.
The old man shuffled out of sight at the back of his little ramshackle stage.
Hours in a ramshackle bus.
The ramshackle army of miners were hopelessly outclassed by a military regiment and were quickly routed.
These days the building is ramshackle and there is a plan to demolish it.
All three major leaders now agree on the need to revise the ramshackle political system.
Many of them live in ramshackle houses along unpaved streets lacking basic services.
From temporary mission to permanent mission and gradually to a ramshackle community with limited services.
Among the most ramshackle there continue to figure the administrative and financial offices.
The village is little more than a tiny collection of ramshackle houses and battered wooden docks.
The home is a ramshackle building in the city of León shared by the extended family.
The Tajik border post is desperately ramshackle.
Most families living in those ramshackle huts had no legal right to be there.
Khudair was a fisherman from Sitra who lived in a ramshackle house.
This involves restoring all the ramshackle buildings to their original state once again.

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