Exempel på rickety

• During these numerous hospitalizations, my wife was always allowed to sleep in my room on an uncomfortable, rickety cot.

• The said carpenter was discovered on all fours, steadying with his breast the rickety structure above.

• Those should be the three pillars of this at present rickety temple.

• We have also introduced a review of utility regulation because the framework that we inherited for consumer regulation was deeply flawed and rickety.

• Our bridges in the past have been very rickety.

• Both are wedded to keeping our dear old rickety tax machine in virtually its present state.

• They were kept in darkness, and without iron or roughage in their diet, they were rickety.

• I think his very timely speech last year perhaps had a slight effect on an already rather rickety structure.

• Bringing in massive agrarian economies will make the rickety structure collapse unless it is thoroughly reformed.

• It is not because they have children running around with little, rickety, wooden wheelbarrows or because of the exploitation of children.

• But is he not propping up a rickety building?

• We began to see the old machines—some of the rickety lathes, and machine tools with a lot too much play and tolerance—gradually being replaced.

• This time, they offer the prospect of success from an even more rickety machine.

• There comes a time when a rickety structure has to be altered fundamentally if it is to be any use at all.

• Do we want to see once again a rickety generation of children?