(a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
(v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.
Example Sentences:
(1) As we settle down to chat in the deputy prime minister's ramshackle constituency base at 85 Netherfield Road, Sheffield, it is hard to dispel the impression that he's still a man under siege.
(2) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.
(3) In between, the small downtown area is a shell of empty, crumbling shop fronts and derelict, boarded-up houses interspersed with the odd bar, ramshackle residential street and tracts of wasteland.
(4) It takes time for Dhaka's ramshackle emergency services to arrive, so hundreds of locals clamber over and through the rubble, tearing at the concrete blocks and mangled metal with their hands.
(5) In the vast dusty fields and ramshackle towns of Shinyanga the problem is that sex education is minimal.
(6) Then he showed me another yellow building; this one was more like a ramshackle shed, with wooden props that looked like they were stopping it collapsing into the mud.
(7) The conference communique, drafts of which have been widely leaked , recognises, in effect, that the ramshackle, temporary governance arrangements in place since 2004 have not worked and are no longer sustainable.
(8) Over the last 30 years, a dense canopy of trees has grown to shade its ramshackle cluster of caravans, old buses, huts and makeshift toilets, many decorated with peace slogans and abstract murals.
(9) A few years later, Davies had his own ramshackle premises; in 2011, Tangled Parrot was named Wales's best independent record shop, just as he was expanding the business to include the Parrot Music Bar and Café .
(10) Fires regularly swept through the ramshackle huts, which remained until the local government built high-rise flats in 1970.
(11) Arcade Fire's sound is all their own, and it has become – even with its moments of ramshackle amateurishness, and its merging of the raw and the refined – one of the key rock signatures of recent times.
(12) We fled the capital almost a decade ago, swapping a rented flat in Kennington, south London, for a mortgage on a ramshackle old house in the Oxford suburbs.
(13) And Adriana spoke on her own behalf: “One of the most important changes in my path being involved in the Alex Nieto case has been to learn more about restorative practices, because as someone trained in legal systems, I know that the pain and fear that we are not safe from police in our communities will not go away until there is personal accountability by those who harm us.” Fear that we aren't safe from police in our communities won't go away until there's accountability by those who harm us Adriana Camarena Adriana, her historian husband, and their friends – including an Aids activist and a choreographer – who live nearby in a ramshackle old building, had faced their own eviction battle last year, and won it.
(14) There were two: a ramshackle center housing a combined pharmacy, city hall and police station, and a Payday Loans outlet decorated with neon lights, promising $10,000 on the spot.
(15) That conflict has deeply divided Lebanon along sectarian lines, and paralysed the country's ramshackle political system to the point that it has been stuck with a weak and ineffectual caretaker government since April.
(16) The city’s walls have become complex documents, authored and re-authored like ramshackle Wikipedia pages.
(17) Layali was born on 7 October 1998 on the open deck of a ramshackle fishing boat crammed with 74 migrants.
(18) Voted for by approximately 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes have faced criticism for what is perceived as their ramshackle structure and lowbrow sensibility.
(19) The family has been working on farmland to cover rent for two ramshackle tents on the edge of a field since February 2012.
(20) Casas da Comporta, Alentejo Don't be fooled by the sleepy, slightly ramshackle air: Comporta is where Lisbon's fashion and media set come to get some sand between their perfectly manicured toes.
Tumbledown
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Tumbledown The semi-finals of BBC1’s celebrity gymnastics show Tumble had 2.9 million viewers between 6pm and 7.30pm on Saturday.
(2) Now it is as tumbledown as most of the rest of the sprawling city, with derelict planes littering its margins and weeds slowly eating the decaying concrete.
(3) The tumbledown venue named after him will be replaced as the national stadium by the towering new structure being built by the state oil company, Socar, with its 124 executive boxes and obligatory VVIP sections.
(4) There were other houses on the estate besides ours: a cottage, and a flat in the tumbledown stable block opposite our house, and a recherche dwelling called the Elephant House.
(5) It’s dappled, woozy, HD travel porn that lingers on beads of early-morning vineyard dew and charmingly tumbledown magic-hour Italian villages in a way that immediately makes you want to chuck some shirts in a bag and head for the airport.
(6) Since I was innocent, I didn’t have anything to fear,” says Ngarbaye, now secretary of the victims’ association, sitting in the organisation’s tumbledown headquarters, a few faded printouts of victims taped to the wall behind her.
(7) Like much of Moldova, it is a poverty-stricken landscape of tumbledown shacks, crumbling apartment blocks, dogs, chickens, kids and old women.
(8) Chuck's sits in a tumbledown row of shops, some shuttered, next to a place that does your taxes and, appropriately enough, a funeral home at the end of the street.
(9) Berg's new offices – a tumbledown building slated for demolition at the end of 2014 – are strictly temporary, and they say they're fearful they'll be priced out of Shoreditch for their next move.