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How to use tumble-down in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tumble-down? Here are some examples.

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The last of its tumble-down outlying villages, with its cheering raggedy children, was left behind many hours ago.
We're running like loonies through tumble-down back streets, looking for white chalk marks.
But there are no rambling roses or tumble-down ancient buildings crying of English tradition here.
Broken-down cars sit outside tumble-down houses.
Didimus complains of the tumble-down classrooms.
The five or six roofless houses, ravaged by sun and wind, and the small chapel with its tumble-down belfry, were arrayed like the houses and chapels of living villages, but all life had disappeared.
Past every tumble-down castle, a cascade of condominiums.
Squatters light fires among blackened tumble-down, piles of rubble.
She bought the sheep with her former partner Paul, who she met while he was a contestant on Scrapheap Challenge, when they bought a tumble-down cottage near Monmouth.
Examples from Classical Literature
A tumble-down place I found it, but I was overjoyed to be in it, nevertheless.
I am stifled in these narrow streets, amid these tumble-down houses, amid these alleys.
They came to a tumble-down barn, but she was too cold and wet to stop where there was no fire.
There were two rough-haired, unkempt horses in the tumble-down stable.
This tumble-down, six-roomed cottage was to be the saving of the family.
By these means the town acquired a tumble-down and battered appearance.
Pullen, he says as there's a tumble-down lime-kiln in that hollow.
It was a crazy, tumble-down old house, abutting of course on the river, and literally overrun with rats.
The floorless, tumble-down cabin was a palace, the ragged gray blankets silk, the furniture rosewood and mahogany.
It was very picturesque and tumble-down, and dirty and interesting.
The parsonage here's a tumble-down place, sir, not fit for gentry to live in.
Didcot with its Banbury cakes and tumble-down station is passed.
They go on telling that fib to deceive the people, and to keep things quiet for their tumble-down government.
The two, with half a dozen thin-legged children, lived in a tumble-down frame house beside a creek at the back end of the Wills farm where Ray was employed.
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