ramshackle

Example Sentences

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Among the region’s architectural highlights are the ramshackle row houses of the ancient Penedo village and the precarious seaside village of Azenhas do Mar with its white cottages clinging to coastal cliffs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The film is not about a tugboat operator, nor does it follow the life and times of the ramshackle group working at a service garage.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

I also inherited my beloved — at least by me — ramshackle family home that has not been lived in for more than 20 years.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

Summed up by Pavlovic as "jangly guitars and chanted layered vocals", it's both richly harmonic and somewhat ramshackle - born of a decision to embrace spontaneity and leave studio mistakes intact.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

We go into the basement of this ramshackle combination motel and boardinghouse, where Earl indicates a closed door—the kitchen, he says—but we can’t go in now, because a guy is sleeping there.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich