F. Sionil Jose

I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.

Filipino Writer

Valerie June

Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it.

American Musician

John Updike

My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble.

American Novelist

Isa Guha

As part of the England women's cricket team, we had our own rickety period at the end of 2005 through to the beginning of 2007. Learning from our mistakes, by 2009 we were the best team in the world.

English Celebrity

Nancy Sinatra

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

Louis C. K.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

American Comedian

Use 'rickety' to describe objects that seem unreliable due to physical weakness or age.

Physical Instability

'Rickety' often implies that something looks old, worn, or on the verge of collapse.

Visual Impression

Sometimes 'rickety' is used metaphorically to describe things lacking stability, like plans or relationships.

Metaphorical Use

In a medical context, use 'rickety' to talk about the effects of rickets, not general weakness.

Health Condition

'Rickety' in a medical sense specifically refers to the condition caused by rickets, a vitamin deficiency.

Specific Disease Reference

Highlight the nutritional aspect when explaining 'rickety' in a medical context; it's about diet-related bone issues.

Nutritional Highlight

 But how are you going to do this, given the decades of hostility? One way might be Each side agrees to accept the fundamental premises of the other. Accept that nuclear power is safe and carbon-free, and that uranium mines can be hideously dirty and that putting large volumes of toxic waste on rickety trains

How will we survive when...

 see it's it's rather rickety and I don't think you're really supposed to have plastic seats in the middle everyone seems to be gripping for a reason because it's the most potholed Road I've ever been on but we were coming around a corner and I've been on these buses a million times and you're like oh that

Alison Wright: Portraits...

 She's a technology leader and instructional leader. But in her office, there's this old wooden, weather-worn table, kitchen table -- peeling green paint, it's kind of rickety. And I said, "Pam, you're such a modern, cutting-edge person. Why is this old table in your office?"

John Hunter: Teaching...

 Cows graze one day. They move, OK? They graze everything down, intensive grazing. He waits three days, and then we towed in something called the Eggmobile. The Eggmobile is a very rickety contraption -- it looks like a prairie schooner made out of boards --

Michael Pollan: A...

 woman doing she sees the world just like we do there is a floor that she feels she walks around she hears sounds she feels virtual touch but in her version of the world there's a chasm it's ten meters deep and we put a very rickety

Can VR help create...

 minutes cows graze one day they move okay they graze everything down intensive intensive grazing he waits three days and then we towed in something called the egg mobile the egg mobile is a very rickety contraption it looks like a

A plant's-eye view -...

 even as their house transformed below. It grew larger and sprouted marble pillars and steps. Legends etched themselves onto its grand doors. Their rickety cottage had metamorphosed into a gleaming temple for the gods.

The myth of Zeus' test -...

 and I did. Jumped out through the rainstorm, we went down this little muddy path, through a rickety metal door, inside a shack where a group of women were dancing with abandon.

What it takes to make...

 love-riot visions of our rising, risen, raised selves. The overcoming grace -- fires, bitter tongues, wise as rickety rocking chairs, suffering salt and sand skies.

Aja Monet and phillip...

 The air smelled smoky and sulfurous. I just stepped off a rickety train to Korba, deep in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh,