Sentence examples for rickety building from inspiring English sources
As the winds whistle and howl outside, the cavernous interior of this rickety building (whose door needs to be nailed shut) becomes the battleground.
The Renegade Warriors, one of 10 volunteer fire departments in the city, have long aspired to move from their cramped, rickety building on a narrow road to a larger, modern place more worthy of their nickname.
A sign in the rickety building's window read 'built in 1923,' and I couldn't help but wonder if in the 20s, the structure had served a better use than as a perch for overzealous teenagers trying to climb their way towards a better view of the Seaport's tiny stage.
Further down the valley in Madice, strange rickety buildings were packed into rows on its sloping streets.
She loved everything in the painting, but particularly the little figures and rickety buildings at the top of it.
The rickety buildings might have been quaint and even expressed Foxen's laid-back approach to wine, but they had become outdated about 80 years earlier.
Mr. Bergey also worries that roof-mounted turbines, which can be heavy and produce steady vibrations, might perform poorly on rickety buildings.
INSIDE the sixth-century Monastery of St .Catherine, with its small stone church, its rickety buildings covered in centuries' worth of white paint, where bearded monks wear black robes, the modern world seems terabytes away.
The governor of this remote region in southeastern Turkey says that he is not to blame for the scores of rickety buildings that collapsed in an earthquake on Thursday.
Would it be the vast sprawl of the rickety buildings and broken pavement of the side streets of one of the world's most extraordinary and unique cities? Or the extreme poverty of the favelas, some of which used to be contiguous to the race track?
Mr. Green's great-grandfather Leon S. Green settled the oldest part of the ranch in 1895; his hand is still evident in now-rickety buildings of burnt-honey-colored boards that were hewn with an adz.
