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
The project is in a tumbledown section of Oildale, situated between an optical lens store and aquatic pet shop.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2024
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
When not huddling in a creaking, tumbledown cottage with unreliable phone service, Eric and his collie, Baxter, tend to a scattered herd of horned sheep.
From New York Times • May 5, 2022
What had once been a line of busy communities was now a mass of tumbledown homes and untended fields overrun by blackberries.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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