ramshackle

It occurred to me that cleared of its ramshackle fences and planted with flowers and grass, it might form a pleasant park.

The roof the boy was standing on turned out to be the cabin of the Shy Maid, an old ramshackle single-masted pole boat.

The restaurant itself is a little ramshackle, but the sublime duck makes it a culinary experience to savour .

The door of the ramshackle farmhouse opened, and Mrs. Hobbs introduced herself to a family in a desperate situation.

A woman sells skintight spandex miniskirts and gaudy, patterned blouses from behind a flowery curtain in her ramshackle apartment.

In his ramshackle apartment, we belted out Bob Dylan songs as he twirled me across the sloping floorboards.

It's a movie set in the 1960s, and most of the action takes place in a modern but peeling and slightly ramshackle hotel.

Every afternoon a very old woman hobbled past the ramshackle house, a vast load of firewood on her back.

All this was true, but this trap, this ramshackle old vehicle, this thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras.

People call us ramshackle but I'm from the old school and I love this kind of old stadium.

Finally a small cluster of ramshackle tin-roofed houses came into sight.

From the start we were In a race: could we fInd Grivas before the Colonial Office stitched up a ramshackle deal?

The Burrow includes a rather large, ramshackle house, a garage, a garden with a small lake, and yards surrounded by hedges.

The signs are everywhere: empty lots overgrown by weeds, ramshackle, leaning houses, derelict public buildings still awaiting restoration.

The rendezvous is set for a ramshackle building beside a potholed road on the outskirts of Blagoveschensk.

The Balts are also well placed to advise other countries how to turn rough-and-ready, ramshackle armies into something more professional.

My first real plunge was back in the mid 90s. I shared a ramshackle flat with two other Irish lasses in the former East.

Yang to the Hepu County Psychiatric Hospital, a sprawling, ramshackle collection of one-story buildings outside Beihai, the closest city.

People started calling tumbledown buildings ramshackle a little less than 200 years ago.

When I last visited the Pudong district of Shanghai, in the mid-1990s, it was a ramshackle area of factories and warehouses.

Residents often say they are not allowed to repair their ramshackle houses.

The facilities, by the standards of other British independent schools, are ramshackle.

Like too many words that sound so delicious the etymology of ramshackle is a little unclear.

As the marriage breaks down, Gary's ramshackle building begins also to disintegrate.

Those transparent ramshackle micro snow, hidden in the depths of the memory, all we gradually.

Guest room, slender bars, fell red paint wooden, and above the mottled ramshackle bolt, let a person remember Shanghai old foreign houses.

EVery abundance despitenoon a Very abundance old woman hobbled past the ramshackle abode, a vast load of fire cotton on IT ago.

The widespread assumption is that the Democrats will nevertheless form a ramshackle coalition.

Earlier a ramshackle mission to Syria by the Arab League had ended in bickering.

Behind a ramshackle cluster of market stalls an impromptu Demsa dance was in full swing.

AFRICA'S ramshackle cities are wearing crowns of gleaming skyscrapers.

His colleagues were a ramshackle bunch.

And there's nothing ramshackle about Mauritius.

Her ramshackle house lacks electricity; the toilet is a hole in the ground; the family drinks dirty water.

The hpublic transport system, mostly ramshackle trains and minibus taxis, is also strained.

Although the stables' picket-fenced 26 acres (10. 5 hectares) is picturesque in parts, it is mostly ramshackle and down-at-heel.

She lived in a ramshackle house on the outskirts of the village, and she never complained.

Moments later, when another ramshackle compound comes into view, he adds, "and that one belongs to two ladies from Hong Kong. "

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