Sentence examples for ramshackle condition from inspiring English sources

By the 19th century the edifice was in ramshackle condition; it was restored in the 1870s at enormous cost.

These attached brick houses sell for perhaps $350,000 "minted" and $270,000 in "ramshackle condition," said Ms. Doyle.

He succeeded mainly in demonstrating the ramshackle condition of his troops; it took more than three weeks to redeploy a single division.Even if it chose to fight, Iraq's army would clearly be no match against an invading American one.

In one of Dubai's museums, the Sheikh Saeed al Maktoum House, archival photos reveal the ramshackle condition of the city in the early 1950's, with the Creek silting up.

The security warnings come at the end of a terrible week for India in which several national teams threatened to withdraw from the competition, voicing dismay at the ramshackle condition of the Games village, the collapse of a footbridge to the main stadium and the tourist shooting.

The ramshackle condition of the capital was noted by philosopher Montesquieu five years into Gian Gastone's reign: "There is no town where men live in less luxury than Florence".

The camp's poor hygiene and ramshackle living conditions are a breeding ground for health problems.

Its ramshackle and orphaned condition was familiar, too.

In big cities around the world, particularly in Africa, hundreds of thousands of people have no other choice but to live in ramshackle housing, cramped conditions or inadequate structures.

But the multiple scandals are straining her ramshackle coalition.

The gunman, 59-year-old Rockne Warren Newell, who had been feuding with town officials for the past 18 years over living conditions at his ramshackle, trash-filled property, was tackled to the ground and shot with his gun after bursting into Ross Township's regular monthly meeting.