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rickety-looking

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  • Her property was given over to hostas and planter boxes and rickety-looking trellis affairs without any apparent master plan.

    Vermilion Drift William Kent Krueger 2010

  • Kushyaha squatted Saturday hammering nails into his rickety-looking wooden row boat on the side of the road, a lone strip of dry land that cuts across miles of water.

    1.2 Million Homeless After Floods | Disinformation 2008

  • But then, off to the right, arcing up sharply over the stony riverbed, we saw a rickety-looking, somewhat asymmetrical stone bridge with a tall arch beneath it, as if it had been built in the long-ago days when the parched riverbed was filled with water and traversed by boats with twenty-foot masts.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • But then, off to the right, arcing up sharply over the stony riverbed, we saw a rickety-looking, somewhat asymmetrical stone bridge with a tall arch beneath it, as if it had been built in the long-ago days when the parched riverbed was filled with water and traversed by boats with twenty-foot masts.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • But then, off to the right, arcing up sharply over the stony riverbed, we saw a rickety-looking, somewhat asymmetrical stone bridge with a tall arch beneath it, as if it had been built in the long-ago days when the parched riverbed was filled with water and traversed by boats with twenty-foot masts.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • But then, off to the right, arcing up sharply over the stony riverbed, we saw a rickety-looking, somewhat asymmetrical stone bridge with a tall arch beneath it, as if it had been built in the long-ago days when the parched riverbed was filled with water and traversed by boats with twenty-foot masts.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • It must have been a mistake, because there were several rickety-looking vertical beams holding the car up.

    Raven Rise D. J. MacHale 2008

  • Then we came to the house itself, a big, crooked, rickety-looking, A-framed sort of thing, half the paint peeling off.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • Then we came to the house itself, a big, crooked, rickety-looking, A-framed sort of thing, half the paint peeling off.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • It must have been a mistake, because there were several rickety-looking vertical beams holding the car up.

    Raven Rise D. J. MacHale 2008

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