Sentences with phrase «rickety little»

I can not explain why this is, but I can tell you that my store's inventory — kept in that rickety little computer I call my brain — is far more accurate, and solely because I update it almost daily.

Director Michael Bay has debuted a new image of «a human's best friend,» the rickety little Vespa better known in the Paramount sequel as Sqweeks.

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.

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So all that scholars really have to go on is the text itself — a wild ride on a rickety, ancient, circular - reasoning roller - coaster with little external data to anchor our knowledge of anything.

Free - range means they have access to the outdoors, which means they could have animals raised by the hundreds or thousands with a little rickety door [to the outdoors] and that can be marketed as free - range.»

On a recent day in Maradona's old Villa Fiorito neighborhood, little boys, shirtless and barefooted, play soccer on one of the two dusty fields that haven't yet been taken over by rickety tin shacks and a garbage dump.

Tears pricked my eyes as I remembered the rocket fuel coffee, the delicious berbere, the van like a rickety roller coaster, the strong hugs of the women I met, the tears of this little sweetheart at the orphanage.

In 1986, they set up a field station for White's Bangkok research unit: little more than a centrifuge and microscope within Nosten's rickety house.

That said, the script starts to get a little rickety midway when Laurence Fishburne shows up as Noland, the only survivor of previous hunts.

Left with little to work with in the historical record, they instead turn their villains» bodies into grotesques: Spall's pathetic moustache tells us all we'll ever know about Shakespeare's fraudulence, while Thewlis is dumped under a pound of old - man makeup and parked in a rickety wheelchair, so you know he's bad news.

The shifter was a bit tall and a little rickety — especially compared with the manual you find in the high - performance Golf GTI — but it did the job.

It may become a little more rickety or unsteady on its back legs.

Some part of me really enjoyed the novelty of the rickety Fanxipan Express, if only to feel a little better about my own country's Amtrak; enjoying rail travel in South Korea or Finland can give an American a serious train inferiority complex.

The Kampot waterpark is a little more humble, but they do offer a rickety slide, a rock climbing wall, a zipline, a rope swing and more.

The Wii always felt a little cheap, with its clattering disc drive and rickety access doors.

I have a dull, plain silver metal ladder... I have a red wooden one that was my grandma's but I would NOT go up on that thing... a little rickety!