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

“Battle of Blair Mt.,” it says, informing the tumbledown cinder block building across the road that here, 100 years ago, was the largest armed labor uprising in U.S. history.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2021

John took the horse and jennet to the stable, a tumbledown affair at the back.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli