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

The piles of tumbledown bricks on Long Beach streets took laborious weeks to clear away.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2023

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

Toward evening, the coachman called out, "Nottaway!" and he reined his team outside a tumbledown inn, built against what resembled the ruins of a giant's cottage.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman