How to use "ramshackle" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "ramshackle" in popular movie and book plots

  • Searching for water, he arrives in a ramshackle town rebuilt and overseen by Carnegie (Gary Oldman).  - The Book of Eli
  • A ramshackle Galactic Protectorate eventually emerges from the rubble of the Empire, though incessant power struggles keep it weak.  - The Specter General
  • One day, the four friends decide to go in Ajay's old ramshackle Volkswagen Samba to Hyderabad to watch a cricket match.  - Saroja (film)
  • On their wedding day, he rents a ramshackle home from his upper class lawyer friend Jules Bolduc (Warner Anderson).  - A Lion Is in the Streets
  • As she walks past the darkened fields to their ramshackle house, Riyo hears a faint sound on the wind of a woman singing.  - Picture Bride (film)
  • This shows that even in one of the busiest, rickety and ramshackle cities such as Bombay there is still hope, love and affection.  - The Village by the Sea
  • George and Kramer later go to the busboy's ramshackle apartment to apologize, only to accidentally leave the door open, letting his cat out.  - The Busboy
  • Luke demands Meggie move with him immediately to a ramshackle cabin on the farm he purchased, just to get Meggie away from Ralph.  - The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
  • London is unrecognizable: dark smoke obscures the sky and leaky pipes circle ramshackle villages.  - Steampunk (comics)
  • Link leads them on foot to a ramshackle farm, admitting that he lived there years earlier.  - Man of the West
  • Behind mr Sneelock's ramshackle store, there's an empty lot.  - If I Ran the Circus
  • However, two salesmen (Dennis Price and Peter Jones) sell him a ramshackle 1924 "Swiftmobile".  - School for Scoundrels (1960 film)
  • Despite living in a ramshackle Texan farm, they are said to have a secret fortune and are made the target of every travelling salesman.  - Secondhand Lions
  • The truck proceeds to a ramshackle safehouse in the forest.  - The Eyes of Heisenberg
  • Tommy's father, Stu, has rented a ramshackle boat called theS.  - Rugrats Go Wild
  • Tuco, having fled to the same town, takes a bath in a ramshackle hotel and is surprised by Elam, a bounty hunter searching for him.  - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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