tumbledown

Example Sentences

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A trip to the mailbox could become a tumbledown Niagara Falls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

The project is in a tumbledown section of Oildale, situated between an optical lens store and aquatic pet shop.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2024

You can see how from Abu Khaled's tumbledown farmhouse, a bumpy few minutes' drive from the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2023

When not huddling in a creaking, tumbledown cottage with unreliable phone service, Eric and his collie, Baxter, tend to a scattered herd of horned sheep.

From New York Times • May 5, 2022

The yellow bus rumbled through a tumbledown section of town, an industrial no-man’s-land of railroad tracks, warehouses, and empty factories with broken windows and rusted steel roofs.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers