How to Use rickety in a Sentence

rickety

adjective

• 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
• Chris would use the rickety shack as a creative space for years to come.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 5 May 2017
• More than 9,000 have been plucked from rickety boats in the Mediterranean in eight days.
  — Washington Post, 25 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
• Usually, like the blue bus, the buildings are rickety and in poor shape.
  — Arkansas Online, 15 July 2021
• The old forms just feel really rickety right now, and not able to contain the stakes.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 19 Oct. 2020
• An enormous, rickety white motor home was stranded in the grass at the front.
  — Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• Abir dances in a laundromat, rides in a cab, and sprints up a rickety NYC stairwell.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 17 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• Sitting on the rickety frame of a wooden bed, 14-year-old Othman Fares eyed the aid workers with a frown.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2021
• Russia is a rickety house that at some point may crumble.
  — Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• Nat Geo’s Craig Welch and the rest of the team hauled supplies for a 10-day camping trip up a set of rickety wooden steps leading to a lighthouse.
  — National Geographic, 7 July 2020
• And, of course, there are still Cubans, too poor to pay for traffickers, who take to the sea in rickety rafts and boats and try to make it to Key West or Miami.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2017
• The houses are crowded more closely there, the tenants poorer, the wiring and gas older and more rickety.
  — Sean Flynn, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
• There’s also a rickety train ride that’s meant to take ten hours but ends up taking 19, on which Bourdain laughs and drinks through the terror.
  — Kaila Yu, Vulture, 20 July 2021
• For a frozen alternative, look for the rickety yellow shack on Peach Street.
  — Erica Jackson Curran, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• Brandon Hill’s parents met in the 1980s as common links in the rickety grocery-store supply chain.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020
• 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
• While still on the 911 call, Shacknai shoved a rickety wooden patio table next to Zahau’s body and stood on it to cut her down.
  — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• With the wolves and snow monster gone, Anna's daring rescue of Kristoff occurs on a rickety ice bridge.
  — Deborah Wilker, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2017
• The Longbranch Saloon still stands, though a bit rickety, and has been serving grub and pouring libations since the 1930s.
  — Sherry Shahan, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
• Analysts likened the move to tearing off a Band-Aid to address its rickety balance sheet.
  — Kristin Broughton, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Such accidents are common in Pakistan, where rickety wooden boats are often used to transport goods and people on rivers and lakes.
  — Fox News, 19 July 2022
• His restaurant is located on a trabocco -- a wooden fishing platform cantilevered over the sea, reached by a rickety walkway, typical of the area.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 23 July 2022

Last Updated: 28 Jul 2024