How to Use ramshackle in a Sentence

ramshackle

adjective

• The movie's ramshackle plot is confusing and not believable.
• The Foo Fighters is a ramshackle sort of band, it’s not Steely Dan.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2022
• The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) A hokey ramshackle mess.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
• Like many of the bars dotted across the region, Guiga’s is ramshackle and no-frills.
  — Andrew Downie, Time, 3 Dec. 2022
• Their house sits among a cluster of ramshackle buildings at the end of a dirt track.
  — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 21 Sep. 2017
• The same could be said for In the Heights itself, which achieves a ramshackle beauty all its own.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2021
• Massey’s has the alarming, ramshackle charm of a roadside stand that rents Uzis.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2023
• The movie begins with Rob (Cage) living in a ramshackle cabin in the woods.
  — oregonlive, 15 July 2021
• Lillian, Bessie and Roland make for a shabby and ramshackle trio.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2019
• After all, the once-ramshackle structure at 417 Jonathan St. turned out to be one of the oldest buildings in the city.
  — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2021
• Behind him stands a ramshackle house in the Nevada desert, casting him in a half light.
  — Rafael Francisco Salas, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2018
• Have a quick peek at the dusty, ramshackle in-house museum—and then get yourself and your boots to the dancefloor.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2019
• The sound is loose, rootsy, ramshackle rock with elements of swing and gospel.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2022
• The sisters fanned out around the ramshackle home, peering in windows and knocking on the siding to call her name.
  — Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2019
• Five miles out stands a cluster of ramshackle dwellings: Puerto Rey.
  — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 29 May 2021
• Who slit the old man’s throat one night in the attic of his fabulously ramshackle abode?
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2019
• Hines, 24, walked up to the ramshackle boardinghouse and gently knocked.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
• But Turner Mountain isn’t just some ramshackle ski area off in the boondocks.
  — Justin Franz, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
• The road is lined with endless rows of ramshackle redbrick buildings.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• The first challenge was to transport some of the ramshackle charm of the original Ed’s into a more generic space.
  — Lawrence Specker | , al, 4 Apr. 2023
• Van Zant loathed flying, and the ramshackle plane contributed to his feeling of malaise.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2023
• Two sets of ropes hang flights below the aforementioned ramshackle stairs.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 13 June 2022
• The thin strips of pasteboard nailed to the walls was a ramshackle form of insulation, and textbook tinder.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2017
• English Cool occupies part of a ramshackle town house, flanked by a cell-phone-repair shop and a garage.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• There are ramshackle front porches and naked light fixtures and no-frills curtains.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
• Beyond the sign, a ramshackle encampment sprawled around two lakes.
  — Justin Jouvenal, chicagotribune.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• The ramshackle houses are heated with firewood and some still make do with an outdoor privy.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 12 Nov. 2021
• Many colonias, which feature a mix of ramshackle shacks and modest brick homes, are built in floodplains.
  — Scott Waldman, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2018
• Also along the banks of the Spree River, Berlin’s largest sustainable urban development project has a ramshackle vibe.
  — Liz Humphreys, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2023
• What may look ramshackle or dilapidated from one angle makes good sense from another.
  — Jeremy Adelman, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2012

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024