tumbledown
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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A trip to the mailbox could become a tumbledown Niagara Falls.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
You can see how from Abu Khaled's tumbledown farmhouse, a bumpy few minutes' drive from the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2023
The piles of tumbledown bricks on Long Beach streets took laborious weeks to clear away.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2023
On a steamy day in July 1799, a member of a French military work detail at a tumbledown fort in the Nile Delta made an unusual discovery.
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2021
It stood just ac ross from the cobhoust, a tumbledown shed full of stuff left there in Grandpa Dowdel’s time.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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