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

On a steamy day in July 1799, a member of a French military work detail at a tumbledown fort in the Nile Delta made an unusual discovery.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2021

A row of tumbledown houses stood behind the garbage cans and the rubble.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke