ramshackle

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Recent Examples of ramshackle Dance away the summer nights at The Beachcomber, a ramshackle restaurant and live music venue perched atop the dunes of Wellfleet. Cameron Sperance, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2025 Most importantly, the ramshackle rotation has been lights out, leading the majors in ERA, FIP, and FanGraphs’ WAR. Sam Settleman, New York Times, 3 May 2025 Souter was perfectly happy with his secluded life in Weare, New Hampshire, living with his elderly mother in a ramshackle cabin in the woods. Barbara A. Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025 Indeed, the Democratic Party has become a ramshackle, disheveled party and has given a new meaning to spontaneous combustion. Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for ramshackle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ramshackle
Adjective
  • The 33 towns being considered for this project, which are expected to meet final approval in the coming weeks, are all on the brink of extinction with the number of empty and abandoned houses outnumbering those that are inhabited.
    Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The team had a group task to accomplish, yes, but at every checkpoint, people had to make the decision to be selfish or selfless, and the selfish ones got rewarded while the selfless were left abandoned and miserable on the loch.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Opened in 1935 as a barbecue market in a tumbledown former Lebanese grocery near the Fort Worth Stockyards, Joe T.’s now serves up to 2,000 diners at once across seven city blocks of dining and parking.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 June 2025
  • That technical change increases the likelihood that a congregation of a tumbledown church might raise the money to unlock more housing and at the same time fix up their building — without simply selling it for scrap.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Now, as soon as next year, the historic campus will transform into housing with 213 apartments as the city's Department of Metropolitan Development and private developers redevelop dilapidated buildings downtown into residential and commercial spaces.
    Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • But Spencer said replacing old, dilapidated buildings with newer ones could also put the district in a better position to compete with charter schools.
    Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Griff's was a cozy space inside with a small, rickety wooden patio in the front and a larger one in the back.
    Brianna Griff, Chron, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Instead of rickety outdoor patios with plastic partitions, diners mostly ate in dining rooms.
    Nick Kindelsperger, Chicago Tribune, 28 Dec. 2022

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“Ramshackle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ramshackle. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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