How To Use Derelict In A Sentence

On her right stood an empty cottage, fast becoming derelict.
Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict.
A derelict synagogue may not be visible in the bazaar, but a Jewish cemetery is accessible on the city outskirts. Magda Abu-Fadil: Lebanon's Jews: Loyalty to Whom? BBC Documentary Tracks Vanished Community
Around 140 luxury homes are being built around the course as part of a deal to save one of Ireland's great stately homes from dereliction.
The worst dereliction is tolerance of rave parties where illegal drugs are sold and used, and minors are sexually exploited. Sound Politics: Seattle needs more police; and needs to use better sense in deploying the ones it already has

Then the regional financial crisis hit and suddenly the air was full of accusations of bureaucratic ineptitude, corruption and outright dereliction of duty.
If this dereliction is allowed to persist, it is predictable that more Americans will die, both on foreign battlefields and at home. Stealth Jihad by Frank Gaffney, Jr. and The American Legion « Mark12ministries’s Weblog
In general it has to be dumped in derelict and unguarded houses, where such of it as is not looted is ruined by damp. As I Please
Why are the peelers quizzing this innocent young derelict?
Apologies should be taken automatically as acknowledgement of personal complicity in the crime or dereliction.
The plant has spawned human fatalities and engendered the strange fauna and flora found on the eerie headland where the derelict buildings remain. Times, Sunday Times
Teenage fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and rifles lurked on bridges or in derelict areas near the main highway leading west toward the embattled town of Fallujah.
In 1881, the schooner Ellen Austin, bound for London, discovered a derelict adrift in the Sargasso.
Vale watched helplessly as a series of explosions reduced the once-proud cruiser to a blackened derelict.
What other cause finds you derelict in your responsibilities to your own people?
In my view he would be derelict in his duty if he didn't have a contingency plan.
His apparent instruction to passport control officers to wave through hordes of visitors unchecked was a grotesque dereliction of duty. The Sun
Why has nobody publicly paid the price for gross and blatant dereliction of duty? The Sun
I was sort of derelict today, I decided I'd sleep in and kind of laze around. President Remarks To Press Pool
We push below this mudsill the derelicts and halfmen, whom we hate and despise, and seek to build above it—Democracy! DARKWATER
The fact that a coastguard was the first on board may save some complications, later on, in the Admiralty Court; for coastguards cannot claim the salvage which is the right of the first civilian entering on a derelict. Dracula
From a distance he looks like a wreck, a derelict.
+ But they were without God in the world; having cast off his fear, and the apprehension of his presence, and their accountableness, which often follow the dereliction of the divine institutions. Sermons on Various Important Subjects
Later, in a memorial service for the disaster's victims, Gustav sought to spread a pall of general bafflement over events, including the government's dereliction.
At the strategic Bagram airbase, 20 miles north of Kabul, hundreds of soldiers trucked in late over the last few days were dispersed among the derelict airport buildings.
And for us to say it's just a few renegade soldiers, listen, I know that those were the ones on the photographs, but there were others who were derelict in their duty.
He's charged with maltreating detainees, conspiracy to maltreat detainees, dereliction of duty and indecency.
The kids who get up at midnight and head out to a derelict wall to begin working on a graffito are working within a demanding tradition that requires the sequence of execution to have been worked out in detail in advance, before any mark can be made. Now please pay attention everybody. I'm about to tell you what art is | Germaine Greer
The theatre has been left to stand/lie derelict.
He said that a new application was received by City of York Council yesterday to transform a derelict car park at the rear of the property to shopping space.
Equally, where derelict or neglected Green Belt sites could better serve the community for example, as a new school or surgery changes in designation could be sought after consultation.
The clean-up of the derelict factory site has stalled over minimum requirements. Times, Sunday Times
That right there is what they call dereliction of duty where I come from, Pardner. hoho Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Just Reward
Hypothermia can occur in younger people with heroin overdosage, from severely low blood sugars, in mountaineers, after near drowning, or in a derelict found under a bridge after an alcoholic debauch.
In 1985, while studying at the J.illiard School, Mr. Benjamin made his second life-changing discovery: Through a convoluted series of personal connections beginning with his ex-bandsman grandfather, he was directed to a derelict warehouse in Asbury Park, N.J. Inside was the vast music collection of Arthur Pryor (1870-1942), one of the star band conductors of the Victor Talking Machine Co. (predecessor of RCA-Victor and BMG). Benjamin's Ragtime Band
He says infantry that didn't keep moving and attacking would be accused of cowardice or dereliction of duty.
The only regular visitors are the labourers and derelicts who drop in to spend some time before the radio kiosk or the television set.
They had driven in past derelict factories, ruined tenement slums. THE GOLDEN LION
Further along, past the stoic old-timers playing bocci, and a wet-suited man struggling to rig up his windsurfer, a derelict concrete edifice looms high over the beach.
Long grass on each side of the street, a derelict and neglected building bereft of glass and doors.
Derelict inner - city sites could be sold off cheaply for housing.
Its dereliction over the past two years had been a constant topic of conversation.
Eerily empty travel zones are full of ice, gas, derelicts and asteroids of various types and colors.
Litter on our streets, anti-social behaviour, dereliction - we all know what is wrong with our town.
One pier is vibrant with candyfloss, arcades and people, the other stands derelict and rusty.
Fix up derelict houses and build affordable homes to the extent there is no shortage and prices will stabilise. Simples.
The plant has spawned human fatalities and engendered the strange fauna and flora found on the eerie headland where the derelict buildings remain. Times, Sunday Times
We have been left a legacy of ugly, vacant and derelict land and also a hefty financial burden to clean it up.
Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course.
Couldn't you be accused of dereliction of duty?
In front of The Garden of Eden, a walleyed derelict bellowed: `It's all over. TALES OF THE CITY
The commission found that each had been derelict in his duty.
The family could not believe that the body was considered to be that of a derelict at the funeral home.
With old stone collected from derelict cottages on the edge of the village they built a circular garden.
An application has been lodged to turn a derelict printworks on Clare Street into six self-supported flatlets for 16 and 17 year-old boys who have recently left care or have problems living alone.
Two weeks ago an Anacreonian merchant ship came across a derelict battle cruiser of the old Imperial navy.
The only surviving Georgian house on the street was semi-derelict.
Property prices have collapsed and parts of the city are a scene of decay and dereliction. Times, Sunday Times
Her dress that day was typical: a derelict work jacket, a pair of pants with one leg ripped from hip to cuff, a too-large pair of overshoes with holes that showed her bare feet, a rag tied around her head.
You wouldn't believe the bureaucratic hoops you need successfully to jump when you're renovating a derelict.
And the charges he faces right now include assault, maltreatment, indecent acts, dereliction of duty, and conspiracy.
It was obviously using rolling stock left over from before unification and went through some very depressed areas with large tracts of unused land and derelict buildings.
A Burnley resident is living in fear of her house going up in smoke after firebugs targeted neighbouring derelict properties.
The horses munched their grain, stamped and whiffled, and filled the derelict tavern with the pungent scent of their droppings. Conqueror's Moon
When it closed the canal was seen as a dirty, decaying relic of an industrial past, and it sank into decay and dereliction.
Whatever the refurbishment cost the building cannot, must not, become another infamous centre of dereliction.
He pleaded guilty to wilful dereliction of duty.
She rented a house next to a derelict building and battled constantly with damp for a year. Times, Sunday Times
Forus not to dothis would only endorse the proposition that the American electorate is intellectually obtuse and morallyderelict and we surround ourselves in a steel fortressof delusion and denial andany awareness of the grossest atrocities committed by leaders we choose. We Must Raise Our Voices for Our Country's Redemption
This must be coupled with the creation of an attractive environment, through the transformation of derelict sites.
Existing derelict land is needed for greening the cities.
The reason that SMT don’t give jot is because it is not their arses’ on the line at 2. 00am behind a derelict building with Billy burglar wanting to take their head off. Homo Electric « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
He's certainly slim, and he's also an exponent of positive thinking, judging by the way he saw potential in the near-derelict chapel standing in Essex.
Marchant builds up a factual record of dereliction in Stepney with the intention of conveying a sense of loss.
He pleaded guilty to wilful dereliction of duty.
Alberto Gonzales and company are so busy destroying civl rights (setting race/gender relations back 100 years) that they’ve been derelict in dotting their “i’s and crossing their “t” s in terrorism cases. Think Progress » FISA Judges: Bush Spying Program Threatens Legitimate Anti-Terrorism Investigations
He was reduced to ordinary soldier due to a serious dereliction of duty.
Though a mote in the dustheap of society, he is no derelict.
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Go through the derelict farm, through a sheepfold, and follow the Shalloch Burn which is crossed on a girder bridge about a quarter of a mile beyond the farm.
The now derelict site, next to one of England's most treasured heritage sites, has been a blot on the landscape since the Jolly Boatman pub was demolished.
The real eyesore was the derelict building we took over, which was covered in vandalism.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Coast Guard has the authority to move derelicts that pose a hazard to navigation, but not to dispose of them.
She's seen a derelict property that has been boarded up for more than a year. The Sun
The buildings in which homeless people squat are in the vast majority of cases empty and derelict, often offering little more protection than rough sleeping. Times, Sunday Times
He was a plenty rough campaigner, but it was his coming back again and again in a kind of rammish, head-butting way on the administration's derelictions that got him within winning distance of the election. A Shockproof Electorate
Anything less would be a dereliction of duty. Times, Sunday Times
Walking the ancient driftway through the marshes, we paused by the derelict drainage mill to watch the aerial manoeuvres of a mixed flight of golden plovers and lapwings.
However, the figures are still dwarfed by the huge scale of the problem of urban dereliction and blight in the area.
Following a few weeks of begging on the streets and sleeping in derelict buildings, he falls in with a friendly group of squatters.
The fire which swept through a number of derelict buildings in Bedford, used by the homeless and drug addicts was probably arson, investigators have confirmed.
It's just a derelict building now. The Sun
That they could allow such a resource to be lost, and lost for ever, is far more than a dereliction of duty – even a banana republic would blush at the callousness of letting something so good and worthwhile go in the name of short-term cuts Fiona Millar, Education, 12 April. Letters: School music coda
Now that this derelict is discovered, that secret is at risk of being revealed. Review | Stealing Light by Gary Gibson (Tor UK)
The yards are full of derelict cars, broken-down furniture, sofas with the stuffing bursting out.
This self-inculpation for events not involving the apologists' complicity personalizes and sentimentalizes an act of crime or dereliction.
Jace sat next to Eric in the passenger seat of the red minivan, looking curiously out of the tinted windows at the increasingly derelict buildings and streets of downtown.
Up to a dozen geosynchronous satellites go out of service every year, and there are now several hundred derelicts in the disposal orbit.
It is surrounded by rows of houses that have been derelict for 20 years. The Sun
The land lay derelict for ten years.
A derelict social club plagued by firebugs could soon be demolished.
Apologies should be taken automatically as acknowledgement of personal complicity in the crime or dereliction.
Once Crowe Farm had been a thriving piggery but the buildings had become derelict.
Even the corporate media, for all its fawning cowardice, hasn't been as derelict as blog rhetoric would paint it.
They were both filmed on location at the derelict gasworks where her greatgreat grandfather once worked. The Sun
They pass an iceberg or a derelict, some contour of tropical shore, a fishing fleet, or an old fore-and-after, and the steamer is a stifling modern metropolis after that -- galley and stoke-hole its slums. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation
Set in three-quarters of an acre, derelict Lambs Barton Stables nestle amid landscaped gardens in a hollow of land with sea views.
These southern burials are clearly very different from the coordinated northern cemetery, obviously occurring once the suburbs themselves were virtually derelict.
But the outlook from the end of the street is a row of ugly, derelict homes which provide shelter for drug addicts and vandals, named by residents after the notorious New York district.
The grade II * listed building has lain derelict since it was sold off by the county council in the late 1980s.
A group of vagabonds and derelicts inhabit a shelter in Moscow, presided over by a fanatical leader who preaches the love of everyone for everyone.
The most notable of these barriers is a complicated system of land ownership, poor roads and a derelict telecommunications network.
Twice is a dereliction of responsibility. Times, Sunday Times
Foxgloves, bright polypody ferns and rushes thrive in the hollows of surface tin workings while wheel pits, settling tanks and buddles associated with the extraction of tin and china clay are masked by scrub, and the derelict structures colonised by spleenwort ferns and moss. Country diary: Bodmin Moor
The derelict wasteland that was the Dublin docklands was transformed into a recognisable city landscape of glass-fronted multi-storey buildings.
Instead, he reloaded his revolver very carefully, and then sat in the best room of the cottage by the derelict brickfield, looking anxious and perplexed, and listening to talk about Bill and his ways, and thinking, thinking. The War in the Air
The business park will help regenerate this area disadvantaged by years of industrial decay and dereliction.
Why has such a prominent site been derelict for 20 years? Times, Sunday Times
She was found guilty of dereliction of duty and accused of concealing a past shoplifting arrest, the army added.
My great-grandparents would be dismayed by the dereliction of what was once the kitchen garden, where our pigs now rootle under the few survivors of Milicent's dozens of espaliered fruit trees, but they would, I hope, be reassured by the survival of some of the plants they put in, gifts of their friend Ellen Willmott, the great Edwardian gardener. Hancox: All under one roof
It was now extremely dark as the towering, derelict offices clouded away the sky.
However it remained unoccupied for a number of years and had fallen into a derelict state.
How can I muster the strength to return to the scene of such a crime against humanity, such a blatant dereliction of the dignity of persons (and personifications of Evil)?
But in Byrom Street, Blackburn town centre, near to the old St Wilfrid's school building, the gable end of a derelict church was blown down.
My great-grandparents would be dismayed by the dereliction of what was once the kitchen garden, where our pigs now rootle under the few survivors of Milicent's dozens of espaliered fruit trees, but they would, I hope, be reassured by the survival of some of the plants they put in, gifts of their friend Ellen Willmott, the great Edwardian gardener. Hancox: All under one roof
The big question everyone in town is asking, when are they going to start work on demolishing the derelict buildings?
But a failure to make a choice and to argue with clarity and conviction would be a dereliction of duty. Times, Sunday Times
Much of the site was home to poor examples of architecture from the past 30 years and derelict land. Times, Sunday Times
As well as producing more affordable homes and tackling homelessness, the strategy aims to bring privately-owned derelict homes back into use.
Instead of bulldozing away old suburbs and derelict factories, the synergistic panpsychist sees these artefacts as themselves part of the living cosmos, hence part of what is to be respected. Environmental Ethics
The derelict soldier shirked his duties
She refuses to "cathect" to the trial, and I would be derelict in my responsibility if I failed to point out that Microsoft Word 2002 does not recognize the existence of the word "cathect. Ellis Weiner: Scribe Sees Boffo Vid as Veep Asst. Trial Preems
When it closed the canal was seen as a dirty, decaying relic of an industrial past, and it sank into decay and dereliction.
Restoration not replacement, bringing the derelict back into use, altering old buildings to make them attractive to a new generation - these are the available moves.
As farmers deserve state protection of farmland, these people trample serious dereliction of duty.
The derelict PBYs were thoroughly exploded for the film.
The theatre has been left to stand/lie derelict.
The theatre has been left to stand/lie derelict.
Firefighters dealt with a fire in a derelict refrigeration unit early today.
The press release announcing the new scheme stated that its purpose was to combat dereliction in these urban areas and to relieve the pressure on housing supply.
Derelict London is a strangely beautiful gallery of the obscure and unseen places in the great capital - one of the most original and talked about sites of 2004.
The CIA was tracking the two, but was derelict in notifying the FBI of all it knew. Coleen Rowley: Could WikiLeaks Have Helped Thwart 9/11?
Whether this was a dereliction of duty remains to be seen, but it has left us with today's rather miserable synthesis. Times, Sunday Times
The derelict building is to be flattened and replaced with a open space and children's play park in the short term scheme.
This means that an annual levy amounting to three per cent of the valuation of the properties will be imposed on the owners until the site is removed from dereliction.
Council machinery will clear and level the derelict overgrown area so that landscaping can start.
These old Lincolnshire farmhouses, especially the derelict ones, tell a fascinating story of farming life in more ancient times.
Now derelict, the stone property has planning permission to be restored as a four-bedroom home, with one bathroom, two sitting rooms, a dining room and a fitted kitchen.
She rented a house next to a derelict building and battled constantly with damp for a year. Times, Sunday Times
His apparent instruction to passport control officers to wave through hordes of visitors unchecked was a grotesque dereliction of duty. The Sun
A rapid withdrawal saw medical headquarters set up in a derelict farmhouse near a railway tunnel that had been converted into a hospital. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
To do so without good reason and without consulting her parents was a dereliction of the duty of care to her and to us. Times, Sunday Times
Derelict and disused buildings are favourite targets, as are billboards, road signs and bus stops.
It was a complete dereliction of duty. The Sun
The yards are full of derelict cars, broken-down furniture, sofas with the stuffing bursting out.
The plant has spawned human fatalities and engendered the strange fauna and flora found on the eerie headland where the derelict buildings remain. Times, Sunday Times
These southern burials are clearly very different from the coordinated northern cemetery, obviously occurring once the suburbs themselves were virtually derelict.
Tendring District Council has cleared about 80 per cent of the rubbish away, but Mrs Knight said there is still a lot left, including two derelict caravans, engine parts, cars, water skis and a sunbed.
Large, rotting cider casks in a derelict part of the mill bear silent witness to this now forgotten trade.
The plant has spawned human fatalities and engendered the strange fauna and flora found on the eerie headland where the derelict buildings remain. Times, Sunday Times
After the tragedy, two officials from the centre were accused of dereliction of duty and they each received prison sentences of six and a half years.
I was looking for the strata where love became extinct and you can break into your own derelict house just to wreck it. WHITE LIES
It was equally wasteful, too, for birds and beasts of prey fattened upon it and the outsetting current bore a burden of derelicts. The Winds of Chance
Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict.
There would have been no poll tax, race riots, rail privatisation and less industrial dereliction.
The majority of them were bought either in completely derelict condition, or as a collection of rusty parts.
Frankly, it would be a pretty stunning dereliction of duty if it didn't. Times, Sunday Times
The scheme will help to address the increasing problems of dereliction and neglect in many rural towns because of rising levels of migration away from rural town areas.
His first victim was a 50-year-old who he lured into a derelict property by pretending that it was a shortcut to a pub. The Sun
His excuse for this dereliction of duty? The Sun
They did not understand why I wanted to buy up their old, derelict homes. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, there is land available in the centre of York on which to build - the old Marygate evening class prefabs by the bowling green have been semi-derelict for years.
They wanted to shoot a car chase in a rundown alley but could not find anywhere sufficiently grimy and derelict.
He was also worried about the health risks of rotting, derelict whare, which became breeding grounds for rats and vermin.
We found a place in Coalcliff, just past Stanwell Park, a derelict house to squat in.
Here is dereliction on a grand scale, sludged in mud dumped from the Channel tunnel.
The shutters of derelict buildings creaked and groaned like mall nourished prisoners in cages as he passed them.
These southern burials are clearly very different from the coordinated northern cemetery, obviously occurring once the suburbs themselves were virtually derelict.
Enormous hedgeless fields slide by, half flooded by the recent rains and in poor heart, the flatness relieved only by rusting dumps of derelict machinery and the hulks of abandoned factories, their windows so diligently smashed by some local Cromwell that hardly a whole pane survives. Wildwood
The public think this centre has closed and I can understand why - it's been allowed to fall into a state of dereliction.
The castellated house, which has been derelict since the 1920s, is widely known for its hauntings.
They've dropped the cowardice charges but he's going to be charged with dereliction of duty.
A youth had fled a stolen car and officers chased him into a derelict warehouse. Times, Sunday Times
The former area of derelict grassland has already been transformed into an accessible area where plants and wildlife can thrive and local people can enjoy the natural environment
Some have managed to take an interest in their land and make it productive, but many have simply reaped the standing crop and then left the land derelict.
And so we pass unto our second accommodation of these words (_unto God the Lord belong the issues of death_); that it belongs to God, and not to man, to pass a judgment upon us at our death, or to conclude a dereliction on God's part upon the manner thereof. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
In tonight's opener, Kevin McCloud revisits the programme's longest-running saga - the five-year and counting epic of Stefan Lepkowsky and Annia Shabowska, who have been attempting to alchemise a cutting-edge contemporary home from the unpromising base metal of a derelict mill cottage in Northamptonshire. The Guardian World News
Up to 20 derelict 12th century homes are for sale. The Sun
Thanks to the effort of local people, that derelict piece of waste ground has now been transformed into a thriving urban nature park.
One night after escaping into a guitar solo, I sucked the drool off my lower lip and realized that the sleazoid drunks and derelicts at the bar were giving me a standing ovation. I slept with Joey Ramone
Under the steel and cement, the derelicts lie happy and drunk, their gaze set on the future.
Following a homeless ‘state of emergency’, the federal government created a $753-million fund to get derelicts across Canada out of the dirt and into an edifice.
The land lay derelict for ten years.
Off to one side was a gray, derelict, ramshackle house that looked ready to fall down.
In reality much of it is also quarries, derelict land and commercial forestry. Times, Sunday Times
Town Clerk Helen Dowling said the council had drawn up a list of derelict buildings and would be sending out notices to owners whose names appeared on the register.
Whether this was a dereliction of duty remains to be seen, but it has left us with today's rather miserable synthesis. Times, Sunday Times
Being derelict in duty is another matter entirely. CNN Poll: Americans think Sanford should resign
That is not a dereliction of duty by any standards. The Sun
If fields, houses, gates, fences, derelict houses are untidy, then we lose marks.

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