How to use rickety in a sentence

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• Although the car was quite rickety, he could negotiate the curves very well.From the entry negotiate
• We were warned away from the rickety old mine because of the danger of cave-ins.From the entry cave-in
• This rickety beater of a car isn’t worth repairing anymore.From the entry worth
• Goaded by Priol’s anagram, Lambert doubted the Shaky Isles’ equally rickety claims on the lamington.2021 April 14, David Astle, “Lamington wars: claiming an Australian invention really takes the cake”, in The Age. From the entry lamington
• Rickety children are backward in teething, and when the teeth do appear, they decay very rapidly.1925, Louis Fischer, The Health-care of the Baby: A Handbook for Mothers and Nurses, page 170. From the entry backward
• If they see you're wearing a watch, they confiscate it,” said one fisherman, standing on the deck of the rickety boat.2016 November 18, Anna Fifield, “China is putting the squeeze on North Korea. But for how long?”, in The Washington Post (Asia & Pacific…. From the entry Donggang
• “She settled on to our rickety Ikea kitchen chairs like she was lowering herself into a coal mine.”2012 July 13, Alex Williams, “Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30?”, in New York Times. From the entry cajole
• Its rickety shelves, spread over four floors, are crammed with American masterpieces from the likes of Hemmingway and Flannery O’Connor.2009 June 8, Derbhile Dromey, “10 best bookshops in the world”, in Irish Independent. From the entry ABC
• Vechey's corpse lay in the center of the tower near a rickety hut, formerly used by guards on sentry duty.1993, Paul Harding, The Nightingale Gallery: Being the First of the Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry God's teeth
• He leaned back in the rickety wooden chair, pulling from a brown quart bottle of Oriental Brew, the cheap local beer.1991 January 16, James Buckston, “Itaewon Encounter”, in The Retort, volume 61, number 12, Billings, Mont.: Eastern Montana College…. From the entry piss-water
• The Harvard man went back into the kitchen and sat down at a rickety table covered with a red-checked oil-cloth.1921, T. S. Stribling, Birthright. From the entry poke salad
• Every piece of furniture, from the threadbare sofa to the rickety center table, seems kind of sad and sobby.1917, Sewell Ford, Wilt Thou Torchy. From the entry sobby
• I joined the men in the queue and jostled my way into the room, seating myself on one of the rickety chairs.2010, Ron S. King, The Dreams of Neptune, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry dance of the seven veils
• Then he wheeled him around and began pushing him lickety-split down the hall, the chair's rickety wheels squealing like a gimped grocery cart.2003, Scott Oglesby, Riding High, page 60. From the entry gimped
• From this turnpike he walked far, only to stand in icelight where the poets and brothers rocked in the rickety porch-dark of his body.1982, The Nation, volume 234, page 212. From the entry icelight
• Their conveyance is no handsome carriage, but a rickety dog-cart, unmistakably betraying its neighbourship to the carts and ploughs of some rural farmyard.1912, May Sinclair, The Three Bront. From the entry neighbourship
• She went a few months before Sukumar died, a cardiac arrest in the middle of an afternoon nap, her rickety heart beating one moment, and then no more.2025, Santanu Bhattacharya, Deviants, Fig Tree, page 249. From the entry cardiac arrest
• On a chilly Saturday afternoon in mid-November Emil was sitting at a rickety wire ice cream table on a just-as-rickety wire ice cream chair in the ice cream shop.2009, A. L. Provost, The Bookmark Murders: Saving Emil Heider, page 122. From the entry ice cream chair
• The horse also, as if it had its own premonitions, refused to get on to those rickety planks, though the rest of the party had negotiated them safely.1974, Apa Pant, “Dreams and Destinations”, in A Moment in Time, Bombay: Orient Longman, →OCLC, page 76. From the entry sais
• By the time I reached the Navy my love of steam preceded me, and I became the stoker for a rickety steam cutter inherited from the Maine.1968, Robert Welch, American Opinion, XI, page 59. From the entry pride wenteth before a fall
• It was a rickety concern, was unballasted, and looked as if, loosely thrown together, it had never filled its original mission and had been practically abandoned.1908, Allen Chapman, Bart Stirling's Road to Success. From the entry unballasted
• Finally he took me up some rickety steps into a men's dosshouse where cell-like rooms led off a passageway equipped with a washbasin and a coolchest of cans of Coke.2006, Sheila Paine, The Afghan Amulet: Travels from the Hindu Kush. From the entry coolchest

Meaning of rickety

1. adjective Of an object: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep; not safe or secure.
2. adjective Feeble in the joints; tottering.
3. adjective Affected with or suffering from rickets; rachitic.

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How do you use rickety in a sentence?

Rickety is used as an adjective. For example: “He hesitated about climbing such a small, rickety ladder.”

What is a short sentence with rickety?

“He hesitated about climbing such a small, rickety ladder.”

What does rickety mean?

Rickety means of an object: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep; not safe or secure.