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Examples
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Her property was given over to hostas and planter boxes and rickety-looking trellis affairs without any apparent master plan.
Vermilion Drift William Kent Krueger 2010
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Kushyaha squatted Saturday hammering nails into his rickety-looking wooden row boat on the side of the road, a lone strip of dry land that cuts across miles of water.
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But then, off to the right, arcing up sharply over the stony riverbed, we saw a rickety-looking, somewhat asymmetrical stone bridge with a tall arch beneath it, as if it had been built in the long-ago days when the parched riverbed was filled with water and traversed by boats with twenty-foot masts.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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But then, off to the right, arcing up sharply over the stony riverbed, we saw a rickety-looking, somewhat asymmetrical stone bridge with a tall arch beneath it, as if it had been built in the long-ago days when the parched riverbed was filled with water and traversed by boats with twenty-foot masts.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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But then, off to the right, arcing up sharply over the stony riverbed, we saw a rickety-looking, somewhat asymmetrical stone bridge with a tall arch beneath it, as if it had been built in the long-ago days when the parched riverbed was filled with water and traversed by boats with twenty-foot masts.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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But then, off to the right, arcing up sharply over the stony riverbed, we saw a rickety-looking, somewhat asymmetrical stone bridge with a tall arch beneath it, as if it had been built in the long-ago days when the parched riverbed was filled with water and traversed by boats with twenty-foot masts.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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It must have been a mistake, because there were several rickety-looking vertical beams holding the car up.
Raven Rise D. J. MacHale 2008
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Then we came to the house itself, a big, crooked, rickety-looking, A-framed sort of thing, half the paint peeling off.
Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008
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Then we came to the house itself, a big, crooked, rickety-looking, A-framed sort of thing, half the paint peeling off.
Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008
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It must have been a mistake, because there were several rickety-looking vertical beams holding the car up.
Raven Rise D. J. MacHale 2008
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