Sentences with word «rickety»

I sat high up in rickety old Woollen Gym, where I was treated to a debut in triplicate: Dean Smith coached his first college game; my classmate Billy Cunningham made his initial appearance on the freshman team; and a sophomore named Bryan McSweeney started for the varsity.

Picture a 16 × 20 slab of lumpy bumpy concrete and throw a set of rickety stairs on top.

For the chance to set out on rickety boats overflowing with passengers, some of the refugees and migrants we met on Lampedusa told us they paid smugglers handsomely — some more than $ 1,500 a person.

Chattering schoolchildren in navy blue - and - white uniforms cycled across the bridge, while fishermen in rickety wooden boats occasionally floated by.

Sometimes I have to cross fast - flowing streams over rickety bridges made of tree trunks.

This side of the Mekong was even quieter — the roads and rickety wooden bridges barely suitable for anything bigger than a motorbike — and the adults just as keen as the kids to yell greetings at us.

I have shown up with rickety card tables and less - than - square business cards printed at home at art festivals and craft fairs.

And speaking of our dining room and the table, this week we are going to give our old rickety table a fresh coat of white paint so it will be all clean and ready for whatever festivity we decide to host.

May 17, 2015 • At least 1,000 are still stranded offshore in rickety boats with little food or water.

Thousands of workers are walking off of job sites, fed up with going to work hungry, putting their lives at risk at rickety refineries, all for a paycheck that fails to cover even the most basic expenses.

Donner, while not quite at the peak of his form in execution, does manage to keep all of this mess from getting too unruly, and with a great deal of energy and zing, makes this a fun, rickety ride.

I personally would have gone for something tall and lush, even though we're going away in just 10 days, but my husband has an affinity for rickety little Charlie Brown style Christmas trees, and so it was.

In Down the House, 2008, Gilmore, mallet in hand, stands precariously atop a pile of rickety wood furniture and plaster blocks tied haphazardly together with fluorescent pink construction tape (a matching bow in her hair) and coated in still wet red paint and plaster.

They're also not as rickety as I imaged.

In the 1880s, these women cooked up chili in big clay pots during the day and sold their wares from rickety chili stands on street corners all night long.

The pallet shower wall was a bit rickety feeling, I knew if the kids hung on it a few times it would topple, so a 4 x 4 post was cemented in the ground and screwed to the fencing for support, a great little solar powered fence post light was added to the top.

West Texas is a character unto itself with massive poverty, oil pumps on the horizon, dusty streets, rickety fences, and gun - toting citizens everywhere.

I'm afraid of rickety ladders.

If you want to wander further afield you can see the deep greens of the seaweed farms, the crashing waves at Devils Tear and the fateful looking rickety suspension bridge.

The traveler goes to Simitai in search of what truly existed — to learn about what really exists — crumbling bricks or not, 3 - hour rickety bus ride and all.

I chain drink cups of tea whilst working at my chaotic, rickety desk and printing in my chilly garage - cum - studio.

Director Tom Harper has a great location (the same old rickety house where the first film was set) and some decent talent to work with.

For his show, «August», Fast had transformed the gallery — located in the heart of the neighbourhood — into a derelict waiting room of broken ATMs and rickety metal chairs.

Parents should avoid mattresses on the ground, or rickety bed frames, as your babies are fragile, and should not sleep on even the slightest unstable beds.

He made rickety stairs out of planks and rigged a somewhat hazardous curtain to fall on unsuspecting visitors.

Then there's the magnificent domed church tower with its faintly Arabic influences, and the old houses stacked up against the hillside like rickety steps.

Editorially, he keeps things graphic and simple, encouraging us to scan nervous truck - ins on walls, rickety staircases, etc., in search of visible signs of ghosts.

The primary reason none of this works very well is that satire shambles along in a very rickety way if it's earnest.

The Pirates» ship was already getting rickety with McNeill as its captain.

Choose a sturdy one that doesn't feel rickety when you walk by, or give it a good shake.

Instead of having to climb down my somewhat rickety bunk bed whenever I needed a highlighter or a granola bar, I stored all of my studying and reading essentials within reach.

Replace rickety sliding glass doors with French doors which allow in as much light.

These pigs have then gone into hiding in various rickety buildings.

Old rickety garage doors display the «No Parking Anytime» that is so commonly seen throughout the city.

And honestly, when you're nursing, an old rickety chair won't cut it.

Towering rickety structures that look paper thin and are fragile as hell apparently, yet made of rock.

He keeps rickety Possum Lodge maintained just well enough to accommodate the many lodge brothers who rely on him for leadership and distraction, and puts up with his nerdy nephew Harold (Patrick McKenna), who provides a younger perspective.

Crossing rivers by rickety suspension bridges and hanging in a little container... and then it's only a little farther over former train tracks... until the police inquires where we think we're going.

They are packed into rickety cages, standing in feces and urine, their nails untrimmed, illnesses untreated, and coats un-groomed — all because the laws have not previously been updated to include them.

Kenya, a country with rickety infrastructure and a reliance on agriculture, could be poised to kickstart mainstream use of blockchain technology.

A victory for the pro-AV campaign would boost the morale and standing of the Lib Dems and perhaps shore up an increasingly rickety coalition.

Most of the temples at Tikal can be climbed, some with rather rickety and steep ladders (it would seem that safety regulations are pretty much non-existent in Guatemala).

Some older cats become quite rickety and can not cope with a cat flap, even if they used to use it when younger.

Q: My Dad is 86 years old and is starting to get pretty rickety.

«We are supporting the mayor's plan to end the inhumane and anachronistic practice of forcing exhausted horses to pull rickety carts through dangerous Manhattan traffic,» Allie Feldman, the executive director of NYCLASS, told the Observer.

In Alone With You, there are more than 12 missions where you explore, use your scanner, engage in conversation, dig up old artifacts, ride rickety elevators, figure out pass codes, fix drones, and piece together dozens of intertwining narratives, among many other things.