tumbledown
Example Sentences
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The Watkins family had a huge old gray barn and behind it, a tumbledown storage shack.
From Literature
I scan the tumbledown cottage.
From Literature
A trip to the mailbox could become a tumbledown Niagara Falls.
The project is in a tumbledown section of Oildale, situated between an optical lens store and aquatic pet shop.
From Los Angeles Times
This is what the wan remnants of an Irish Catholic dynasty look like in Brian Friel’s play “Aristocrats,” set in the mid-1970s amid the tumbledown glamour of the O’Donnells’ grand old homestead, in the hills above Ballybeg, County Donegal.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
