The ramshackle mansion had stood alone on the bluff for a hundred years. From LearnThat.org.
In drug dealings, most dealers lived in ramshackle housing/with their parents in run down neighborhoods and died early. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Coburn: Blocking Unemployment Benefits Is Fine Because It Only Affects A ‘Small Amount Of People’] Reference
About 2,000 people live here, in ramshackle trailer homes, weather-battered recreational vehicles and well-kept brick houses. From Wordnik.com. [Mexicans Fleeing the Drug War Pour Into the U.S. | Impact Lab] Reference
Had she lived to hear Humfrey's new barn, with the verge boards conceded to her taste, called ramshackle?. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
The area was certainly "ramshackle," to say the least. From Wordnik.com. [Roberta Brandes Gratz: Westway Changed Transportation History] Reference
Wierd how urban liberals always pick up on his 'ramshackle' house. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-07-27] Reference
I drove past ramshackle barns and houses and wondered at how descriptive that word, "ramshackle" is. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
Beyond, over the way, was a kind of ramshackle building that had possibly been a dwelling-house at some time. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu] Reference
Since we deposed Saddam and the WMD threat was a chimera and some kind of ramshackle unstable government has emerged. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan] Reference
The record, described as "ramshackle" by bandleader Hitchcock, contains some of the most raw and propulsive music of his career. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
The three of them now live in a "ramshackle" cottage in West Sussex where they enjoy the good life far away from the glare of paparazzi. From Wordnik.com. [WalesOnline - Home] Reference
A kind of ramshackle building that had possibly been a dwelling-house at some time. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil Doctor] Reference
I’m certain that it had something to do with her overall appearance, which exudes a kind of ramshackle, tossed together quality. From Wordnik.com. [Firefly Ship Works Ltd. » Blog Archive » Building a Firefly – Part Five] Reference
Not as ramshackle as it was when we moved in two years ago. From Wordnik.com. [And We Sell Apples 1977] Reference
He is chained to a post at the entrance of his ramshackle tin shed. From Wordnik.com. [The Corners] Reference
The ramshackle taxis that clog downtown Rangoon look ready for the scrap heap. From Wordnik.com. [Yes, Big Brother Is Watching] Reference
Waste laps gently at ramshackle metal platforms that seem equal parts rust and steel. From Wordnik.com. [Aging Oil Terminal Vital To Iraq's Economy] Reference
Among the worst of those gaps is the ramshackle state of security checks at U.S. airports. From Wordnik.com. ['We've Hit The Targets'] Reference
Quintana and Rodriguez both come from Cardenas, a ramshackle town 75 miles east of Havana. From Wordnik.com. [Grandma Diplomacy] Reference
Convinced he was the object of "trickery," Weaver barricaded the clan inside the ramshackle compound. From Wordnik.com. [Is Deadly Force Justifiable?] Reference
Just behind, a brawl is developing outside the distillery; the ramshackle houses are close to collapse. From Wordnik.com. [Two Views Of London] Reference
A SWAT TEAM QUIETLY surrounded a ramshackle cabin one recent morning in the mountains outside Los Angeles. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime Evil Forest] Reference
On the border, she says, "exteriors are crumbling, unpainted, ramshackle, but inside is a realm of magic.". From Wordnik.com. [Selena Country] Reference
The country's ramshackle infrastructure is finally giving way to smoother roads and streamlined telecommunications. From Wordnik.com. [AN INDIAN CHAMPION] Reference
It's a ramshackle place, half home, half office, tucked behind a row of old miners 'cottages in the north of England. From Wordnik.com. [I Did It My Way] Reference
A decade ago avant-garde photographer Rong Rong lived in a ramshackle farmhouse and took odd jobs to support himself. From Wordnik.com. [China's Glasnost] Reference
Nazir Ahmad Khan's short life as a Kashmiri militant began one month ago in the ramshackle village of Sanoor-Kalipura. From Wordnik.com. [Surviving The Storm] Reference
Mrs. Soffit's house was an old ramshackle Queen Anne, a house so well known in its day that it was called by its street number, 12. From Wordnik.com. [Bailey White: 'The Wedding Horse'] Reference
I got my copy of her guidebook at the Behzad Bookstore, a tiny corner shop tucked away in the city's ramshackle commercial quarter. From Wordnik.com. [Kabul Time Capsule] Reference
In the ramshackle marketplace of Furush Gah, shopkeepers opened their stalls and chatted among themselves along the dirt alleyways. From Wordnik.com. ['My Hopes Have Turned To Dust'] Reference
Kennedy's command post was a ramshackle office in an abandoned phone-company building that looked as if it would fall down at any moment. From Wordnik.com. [Judgment Day] Reference
On this strip of land along the Baltic, the stereotypical contrast between a wealthy West and a ramshackle East couldn't be more reversed. From Wordnik.com. [Real Estate: History In Reverse] Reference
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