The rickety chair in the corner is an antique. From LearnThat.org.
A rickety table. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
rickety limbs and joints. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Exhibition games were played in rickety stadiums in front of only a handful of fans. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Spring training has different look than in 1950s and 60s] Reference
Aged and poverty-stricken army officers would drive up to the doorstep behind rickety old horses and in rickety carryalls. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from the Marsh Croft] Reference
I hate that Bianca's brand of crazy, though, is kind of rickety, slow and boring. From Wordnik.com. [Taking the boot off] Reference
He was in a "rickety" condition, and he weighed only 32 pounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference
The grandmother was shocked to be told that the plate, which has sat on a 'rickety' sideboard in her home for years, was worth £100,000. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
And don't I nightmare future of rickety wheelchairs?. From Wordnik.com. [His Name Was Do Re Mi] Reference
On screen: a rickety overpass right out of Donkey Kong. From Wordnik.com. [Life In The Virtual Year] Reference
Desperate Haitians continued to flee the island in rickety boats. From Wordnik.com. [How About Another Bay Of Pigs?] Reference
But in the beginning, it was definitely a rickety little business. From Wordnik.com. [DailyCandy: Dany Levy's Sweetest Idea] Reference
The rickety elevator comes to an abrupt stop and the doors fly open. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound of Barcelona] Reference
Time did drift, rickety ladders of it, more precious than platinum. From Wordnik.com. [Joe's Roast Beef] Reference
Her words were as unsteady as a rickety wooden bridge in a windstorm. From Wordnik.com. [The Bludgeoning of a Burgeoning Young Artist] Reference
Col. Ulbaidulo Ahmadov climbs out of his rickety Soviet-era military vehicle. From Wordnik.com. [The New 'Silk Road' Of Death] Reference
Daddy says we should have taken one of the rickety cabs but it's too late now. From Wordnik.com. [Peeg and Brie (opening of a teen novel)] Reference
She made her way up a rickety staircase, pushing through cobwebs to the first floor. From Wordnik.com. [Camera Obscura] Reference
He expertly threads between the clusters of people around the dozens of rickety tables. From Wordnik.com. [LuLu] Reference
But his explanation was disingenuous: it was dangerous coming over in those rickety boats. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics Of Promiscuity] Reference
As they approached each other on legs rickety with age, her hands fluttered over his face. From Wordnik.com. [IN THEIR LOSS, THEY FOUND EACH OTHER] Reference
Nickolai stopped at the corner and lifted the rickety cart from the sidewalk to the street. From Wordnik.com. [Hat Shop Girls] Reference
Then he went and sat on a rickety chair that had been set in the shade in front of the shop. From Wordnik.com. [Bread, Fish, Serpent, Stone (continued)] Reference
A stream of bodies climbs a rickety stairway to a helicopter that seems too small to carry them all. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Days Of Saigon] Reference
Only a few months before he had been piloting rickety craft, delivering the mail for the Robertsons. From Wordnik.com. ['The Flight of the Century'] Reference
The system is getting old and rickety, particularly for the volume of commerce it has to accommodate. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Internet Broken?] Reference
The day after Christmas, Hernandez and seven others lashed themselves to a rickety 20-foot boat heading north. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Odyssey] Reference
Mexico is not like Italy, which does just fine, thank you, regardless of its rickety institutional scaffolding. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Toughest Job] Reference
The 1986 Chernobyl explosion drew world attention to the rickety condition of the country's 37 nuclear power plants. From Wordnik.com. [Get Out The Geigor Counters] Reference
You can scale cliff faces, dive into translucent water and navigate rickety bridges with complete freedom of motion. From Wordnik.com. [Die, Puny Human] Reference
Fortunately, the rickety scaffolding of campaign-finance regulations is collapsing and being replaced by wholesome chaos. From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH CRIME IN WISCONSIN] Reference
Instead, things turned violent: a brawl in the stands during the finals sparked a stampede in a rickety, overcrowded stadium. From Wordnik.com. [THE FALL OF FOOTBALL] Reference
South Korea and Thailand, for example, are no longer so eager to sell rickety banks to foreign investors at fire-sale prices. From Wordnik.com. [Still Waiting For Mickey] Reference
The clock is pushing 10 past 11, and Ornish is running his rickety BMW through San Francisco's crowded streets like a rodeo steer. From Wordnik.com. [Healer Of Hearts] Reference
Five hundred Chinese refugees huddled together on the rickety boat that carried Tang So away from his native home in southern China. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarians From The North] Reference
That safety interest also justifies implementing a permit system to keep unlicensed vans from plying the street in rickety vehicles. From Wordnik.com. [New York City Transport Workers Union Strikes Again] Reference
Of course, with hundreds of music files on your PC, your hard drive can become just as cluttered and disorganized as a rickety CD rack. From Wordnik.com. [Marrying Music To The Pc] Reference
I stood outside the college gate, waiting for first light to bring the first rickety bus that would take me to the hospital across town. From Wordnik.com. [Red Smells Like...] Reference
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