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
KAMAKWIE, Sierra Leone — In the tumbledown concrete room that has been commandeered as this sleepy African trading center’s Covid-19 vaccination headquarters, a battered freezer holds stacks of boxes with dozens of small glass vials.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2022
Four tumbledown one-room houses of unmortared stone surrounded an empty sheepfold and a well.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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