rickety

Example Sentences

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He’s got his quirks—chains his tea mug to the radiator by his desk, wears a tie for a belt, and rides a rickety bicycle along country lanes while wearing a gas mask.

From Literature

We go up a rickety set of stairs and enter a wide room, roughly the same shape and size as the tea shop below.

From Literature

He ducked under a couple of long metal pipes being carried by two guys, and then stood aside as someone else made their way over a rickety network of wood planks with a wheelbarrow.

From Literature

The folding chair was rickety, but Owen managed to get his head and his good arm up through the hole.

From Literature

He writes, for example, that the guitarist James Blood Ulmer plays “shrill, disjointed fragments, nervous bits and rickety pieces tied together by a staggered but wryly swinging thematic sensibility.”

From The Wall Street Journal