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

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

He crusaded to restore the state’s tumbledown missions and built the city’s first museum, the Southwest, where he housed his matchless collection of artifacts.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022

The result is “Mundos Secretos,” a long-simmering collection of smeared, tumbledown, D.I.Y. psych-jazz excursions that evoke the auras of bossa nova and tropicalia in magnetic and mysterious ways.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2022

Four tumbledown one-room houses of unmortared stone surrounded an empty sheepfold and a well.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin