rattletrap

Example Sentences

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City leaders were hellbent on a “bold modernization,” as one 1963 headline put it, razing rattletrap buildings for their version of a paved paradise with its million-dollar view of mountains and Puget Sound.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2021

Once, on a flight over Cuba, aboard a rattletrap former Soviet military aircraft, I sat in escalating alarm as the cabin filled with a weird mist.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2020

There’s a rumble outside of tires on gravel, and here comes Phil, gray haired and grizzled, bothered and cantankerous, getting out of his rattletrap, beaten-up truck that he’d backed up to the store.

From Washington Times • Mar. 5, 2017

He and several colleagues jumped into one of the rattletrap Mercedes taxis that ply the city’s streets, followed the car to a house rented by Colombians and took them by surprise.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2010

A state police car with the red light flashing bounced frenziedly off the highway, swung around the cluster of rattletrap vehicles, and screeched to a stop with its nose practically touching the front door.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols