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

“Battle of Blair Mt.,” it says, informing the tumbledown cinder block building across the road that here, 100 years ago, was the largest armed labor uprising in U.S. history.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2021

He was living on a slightly tumbledown horse farm in northern Missouri, sitting on the back porch in jeans and a cutoff T- shirt.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell