How to Use rickety in a Sentence

rickety

adjective
  • Chris would use the rickety shack as a creative space for years to come.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 5 May 2017
  • There always seemed to be a group of boys and girls hanging out on the rickety porch or front yard.
    — oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2019
  • An enormous, rickety white motor home was stranded in the grass at the front.
    — Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The van was so old and rickety that the carpet was the only thing between me and the road.
    — Andrew Bockhold, Longreads, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The old forms just feel really rickety right now, and not able to contain the stakes.
    — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Usually, like the blue bus, the buildings are rickety and in poor shape.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 July 2021
  • One family walked on a rickety pathway of boards over a sprawl of sticky black mud in their yard.
    — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Leather-skinned men in cowboy hats steer rickety horse carts while children in bonnets bounce in the back.
    — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 12 Apr. 2019
  • The rickety old thing can handle only two people crossing at one time.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 29 May 2020
  • Your sunnies should be comfortable and durable, not rickety!
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 26 Mar. 2026
  • That’s a price worth paying to avoid an even more rickety financial system.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 10 July 2019
  • Mostly the people sitting at the rickety stools around her booth are the vendors who work in the market.
    — Eric Barton, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2021
  • More than 9,000 have been plucked from rickety boats in the Mediterranean in eight days.
    — Washington Post, 25 May 2017
  • The result was a gleaming skyscraper held up by some rickety wooden boards, duct tape, and magic.
    — Ian Stokes, Space.com, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Riding along, and up and down, rickety roads, his body will rattle as if riding on a pneumatic drill.
    — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 18 July 2017
  • Because all the old aluminum windows in the house were so rickety, Ken replaced them with new ones.
    — Sarah Wolf Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Oct. 2021
  • That ballpark was a rickety wooden affair, and whenever the crowd would jump up, the seats rocked back and forth.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2020
  • When a road is riddled with potholes or a rickety bridge has to be closed, there’s likely to be another way around.
    — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2020
  • But like the rickety rental car trying to make it up a hill, stones keep kicking up into the underbelly.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Munda is less a town than a collection of hamlets, centered on a market of rickety stalls and run-down shops.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2020
  • Reaching the area required a two-hour plane ride on a rickety aircraft, which landed in an empty meadow.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The houses are crowded more closely there, the tenants poorer, the wiring and gas older and more rickety.
    — Sean Flynn, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
  • None of a dozen or so anglers fishing alongside Schroeder and his rickety white plastic lawn chair catch any.
    — Matt Tunseth For The Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022
  • That evening, Wanda ventured to an open-air market crammed with rickety shacks as the shadows grew long and the light turned gold.
    — USA Today, 22 Aug. 2019
  • For a frozen alternative, look for the rickety yellow shack on Peach Street.
    — Erica Jackson Curran, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Abir dances in a laundromat, rides in a cab, and sprints up a rickety NYC stairwell.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 17 May 2018
  • Then the pilot climbs down a rickety rope ladder to a pilot boat to wait for an incoming ship in order to complete a round trip.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Nov. 2021
  • As Mohamed lamented his fate, two men sat in rickety chairs at a nearby butcher’s shop, cups of tea set up between them.
    — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The one rickety section of the book is where Tyler has to set this implausible scenario in motion.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2018
  • By the end of the evening, people had abandoned their rickety folding chairs and little plastic cups of wine to boogie with abandon.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2019

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