How to Use tumbledown in a Sentence

tumbledown

adjective

• Back in the truck, Mr. Grant pointed to a tumbledown shack on the west side of the road.
  — Michael Tortorello, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
• But the halo of wealth of the Bay Area has never reached the tumbledown homes, trailer park and ranches of Round Valley.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• The bay itself divides the country in two; there are small islands and small coves, a yacht club on the west shore and a tumbledown shipyard on the east.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2021
• With no ties to bind him, Cal has acted on his dream and bought a tumbledown Irish cottage advertised on the Internet.
  — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020
• A tumbledown home with a tin roof high in the mountains of Guatemala had no electricity or beds, only tattered clothing and rationed food.
  — Kenneth R. Rosen, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2016
• Allen Moyer’s set consists of a rotating box that morphs from a tumbledown shack into a graceful farmhouse, a roadside bar, and a college dorm.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2021
• Above them all is grandmother Muriel (Ann Reid), who lives in a large tumbledown manse where the family will gather intermittently across the years.
  — Robert Lloyd, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
• The cramped establishment, called Pizza House, hunkers in an alley within the tumbledown bazaar.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 21 Aug. 2019
• Above them all is grandmother Muriel (Ann Reid), who lives in a large tumbledown manse where the family will gather intermittently.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
• Soon the sturdy adobes and ranch houses of Joshua Tree and Twentynine Palms gave way to makeshift homes cobbled together from tumbledown cabins, shipping containers and trailers.
  — New York Times, 19 Dec. 2017
• In the tumbledown concrete room that has been commandeered as this sleepy African trading center’s Covid-19 vaccination headquarters, a battered freezer holds stacks of boxes with dozens of small glass vials.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• The slip where the ship is now located is flanked on one side by cement stacks belching white smog; on the other is the tumbledown sanctuary where the ancient Athenians once celebrated their religious mystery rites.
  — Alexander Clapp, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2020
• Today, Santa Claus is a ghost town, inhabited by tumbledown buildings and families of rattlesnakes.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2018
• Activists share tumbledown houses, and a single piece of architecture can serve multiple functions: a townhouse is as much a house as an activist center; a storefront with peeling paint does double duty as a school.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2021
• By 2008, the plan called for razing four tumbledown apartment complexes in the city and building bigger, modern developments in line with the New Urbanism concept, featuring open, walkable green spaces and an array of amenities.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 8 July 2017
• Then there is the matter of Bernadette herself, who spends her days randomly fixing up and tweaking elements of her tumbledown house and dictating memos to her virtual assistant, apparently named Manjula and located in India.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 16 Aug. 2019
• Other more conventional — if risky — ideas involve providing no-interest financing to fix up tumbledown properties.
  — Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2017
• His aesthetic is simultaneously clinical and tumbledown: archaeological-dig-meets-mad-scientist-laboratorio.
  — Nancy Hass, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024