Synonyms

1. rachitic

Sentence Examples

1. Even with our glacial pace, every hoof beat and every crack or groan of the rickety structure caused Hawke to flinch.
2. It was in a rickety shed in back of the post office, which itself was nothing but an old store room behind the Brewster house.
3. I lowered myself into a rickety chair at her kitchen table.
4. She watched Peter make his way down from the treehouse quickly but carefully, making sure his feet hit the rickety boards that served as the ladder.
5. They looked rickety and barely put together, but Gordon realized they would float for only a short time before sinking, which must be the point.
6. Sending a silent prayer skyward for worthiness, a sweaty, adrenaline-powered Lance bolted up the rickety wooden ramp toward the heavens.
7. The hard, narrow, wretched, rickety bed of Don Quixote stood first in the middle of this star-lit stable, and close beside it Sancho made his, which merely consisted of a rush mat and a blanket that looked as if it was of threadbare canvas rather than of wool.
8. I snatch a glance at the low sunlight slicing through the rickety door.
9. That the productions of such marriages are generally scrofulous, rickety, or deformed children by which means the family seldom continues above three generations.
10. My fellow slaves whispered amongst themselves that he had been cursed by the ghoul and pulled their rickety cots as far as they could from him to avoid possibly being affected too.