How To Use Dilapidated In A Sentence

The pig farm is a squalid 10-acre patch of mud and dilapidated buildings in the town of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.
With Ahmed as our guide, we are taken to a gaunt, dilapidated building.
The participants and production crew moved to Oxley Downs, six hours drive from Sydney to the property with 12 buildings, a dilapidated garden, horses, chickens, geese, a cow and 1.300 merino sheep.
Developers buy old, unused, dilapidated hotels and redevelop them into brand new upscale luxury condos.
The school was granted some temporary prefabs to replace old dilapidated ones which were declared unsafe, but with both sets of these prefabs in the school at the same time, the children lost a lot of their playground space.

One of his first tasks after buying a dilapidated farmhouse in the Chiba prefecture, about 60 miles east of Tokyo, was to build a huge wooden bathtub.
The bill requires owners to undertake remedial work on dilapidated buildings.
German-French for “Madame la Vicomtesse,” and after many ceremonious bows, he drew from his pocket a dilapidated pocketbook, saying: “Che un betit bapier bour fous,” and unfolding as he handed it to her a piece of greasy paper. Une Vie
His sons have dilapidated the estate.
On the area of the croft land, there is also a further dilapidated farm building which could have the potential for residential conversion.
Director: Martin Ginestie An investigation into the debate surrounding the fate of Robin Hood Gardens, controversial East London housing estate described as a dilapidated concrete eyesore by some and a masterpiece in Brutalist architecture by others. IndieWIRE News
Penhall plies his pen widely, commenting on the dilapidated National Health Service and the nature of perception, sanity, and normalcy.
Dilapidated public schools-their windows covered by protective grilles coexist with crack houses.
There was every kind from little boats to huge cargo ships, from dilapidated sailboats to magnificent barges.
The complex has been neglected and has become a dilapidated landmark in the city.
The wrapped rolls were arranged either in rows on shelves or in batches in solander boxes or poor quality, dilapidated card boxes.
The site of these mighty capitals is almost erased from the map of the modern traveller; but tribute and traffic have also ceased to sustain even the dilapidated serail of the once omnipotent Sketches
An investigation into the debate surrounding the fate of Robin Hood Gardens, controversial East London housing estate described as a dilapidated concrete eyesore by some and a masterpiece in Brutalist architecture by others. Cinematical
Over-crowded, run down and dilapidated school buildings must be tackled immediately.
The scene itself is picturesque in the highest conceivable idea of architectural representation; far more so, indeed, from its dilapidated state …, than can possibly consist with any entireness, however accompanied, of the most complicated and magnificent edifice (195-6). Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject
The stained, dilapidated ceiling yields its representational clarity to the intensity of the wandering linear brushstrokes and bruised colors that define its unusual topography.
This included reviewing the penalisation factors which determine when the Parole Board can consider an offender for parole, the rehabilitation and re-opening of prisons that were closed due to having fallen into a dilapidated state, enhancing the functioning of community corrections and improving rehabilitation programmes. ANC Daily News Briefing
They are hideous examples of concrete brutalism, dilapidated and badly-run and best demolished.
Setting a boot on one of the dilapidated benches, Cameron glanced at the old jitney terminal behind the airport. MINUTES TO BURN
Unless your home is totally dilapidated, steer clear of a complete redecoration prior to selling: it will arouse suspicion.
The quest brings her back to a dilapidated cabin in Dawson's North End; down river to cook at a tourist camp, or out on the river to play her camera on a fishing operation in the half-light of a Dawson summer night.
The dilapidated barn detracts charm from the landscape.
Towards the end of his life he was living in a dilapidated four-bedroom flat in a 1930s mansion block in north London; he would often take his meals at a cafe in Willesden.
Some time later he went to a church-builder in the same place, and under the architect's direction became handy at restoring the dilapidated masonries of several village churches round about. Jude the Obscure
Quite a few of the houses are dilapidated, paint flaked off rotting wood, patched up with corrugated iron boards.
And lying as she did, the soles of her dilapidated moccasins, or rather the soles of her feet (for moccasins and stockings had gone in shreds), were turned upward. CHAPTER 25
Many dwellings in this mixed commercial-residential area were dilapidated and in need of substantial rehabilitation or replacement.
The circle found that this family of four was living in a dilapidated hut with virtually no means for food and medicines.
He stared at the dilapidated office building, wondering how many people were inside.
We are replacing a dilapidated carport which is attached to our garage and the (south-facing) front of our house with a pergola.
Some of the other issues complained of were the dilapidated state of their palaces, late remittance of chiefs' allowances and failure by Government to procure uniforms for chiefs retainers.
Dilapidated public schools-their windows covered by protective grilles coexist with crack houses.
Otherwise, on whose authority do those censorious correspondents write who continually fret and complain because a dynamic world language cannot be constrained within the dilapidated palisade of their rusty rules?
IBM Solution: cross-match families from their existing residences into crowded dilapidated slums so that in a single day, thousands of people could be efficiently transferred from point A to point B. American Corporate Complicity Created Undeniable Nazi Nexus
Sometimes we'd move back to this dilapidated family home and we would realize again that this was where we really belonged.
A short walk from her doorstop, past some pastures and a dilapidated barn, is the fir and cedar forest that covers about one-third of her property.
Also included in the mix are the two comic country bumpkins, stereotypical toothless hillbillies with their pipes, dilapidated hats, and cargo of farm livestock.
Businessman John Cross wanted to turn the dilapidated and decaying jetty into a shopping mall, bistro-style restaurant and a specialised apartment-style hotel.
They are hideous examples of concrete brutalism, dilapidated and badly-run and best demolished.
To his left is a dilapidated building with a chainlink fence around it, which holds the contractor's sign displaying a sketch and description of what it will become in eighteen months. A Bear Hunt in Riga
The streets are full of dilapidated vehicles, and a ride in a taxi with an unbroken windscreen is indeed a luxury.
But he takes offense to the suggestion he has purposefully left his property, including an old garage that he leases for use as a car shop, in dilapidated condition. Edwards scared of 'rabid Republican' neighbor
She had the first and second floor of a thin, dilapidated building that was a ruin above the third storey.
The house, save for the actual fabric of it, had become rather dilapidated and ruinate. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
The number of empty dilapidated shops in the depressing Bradford city centre are witness to the existing problems of traders.
My dilapidated apartment didn't seem quite so shabby, the shops, not so familiar.
Armed with a special radar device they began their search last week in the dilapidated convent of Saint Orsola in Florence where they think the body of the 16th century noblewoman was buried. Italians Search for da Vinci's Mona Lisa Model
The unabashedly poetic film depicts the turmoil experienced by a group of adolescents over the course of a summer in a dilapidated Southern town.
From the outset, a dilapidated building - dark, dingy and dangerous - mirrors the standard of care for the agglomerated, forgotten Brazilian criminal underclass.
A Sussex country churchyard in October: the leaves on the trees are turning golden, in the distant Wealden valley autumnal mist is beginning to rise, crows are cawing overhead, sheep are bleating in a nearby field and I am standing in front of the dilapidated grave of one of England's greatest cricketers. Maurice Tate was a true Ashes hero but now weeds claim his grave
They work in dilapidated sheds and live in illegal hutments that the municipal corporation is threatening to demolish.
This will fund the restoration work and the construction of a community meeting room, which will replace the dilapidated church hall.
So, unrepaired and unfrequented, town centers began to look dilapidated, long before any unwelcome barbarian tongues were heard in their near empty streets.
Then, with all the grace of a dilapidated high rise that is rigged for an implosion, the book collapses in a sudden and spectacular fashion, leaving behind a huge pile of rubble that isn't worth sifting through.
The gruff man had pointed to the back of the store, past the mostly empty shelves, behind the dilapidated and rusted freezer that didn't work, and next to the storage room roughly marked ‘STOOREAGE’ in an inartistic graffiti style.
On a dilapidated black-and-white television sits an old kerosene lamp which he lights when a blackout plunges him into darkness.
The tenants of a dilapidated York building allegedly turned down £250,000 to surrender the lease to the city council.
Christa and John Hale visibly fill with pride as they describe how they have transformed their beloved Highland home from a dilapidated wreck into a rural idyll.
We may have a dilapidated library and an unreliable student computing service, but our staff are the best in New Zealand.
The safety of the increasingly dilapidated hulk is by no means assured and the situation is worsened when the foremast is damaged.
A Judge today ordered squatters occupying a dilapidated York hotel to leave the building immediately and pay £2,000 in legal costs.
The disused railway station at Crouch End had a stagey eeriness, even on a bright hot day; and the abandoned play park was so dilapidated that you could almost sense the accident-claim lawyers lurking in the trees.
A blackened decorated mirror, purchased in Uxbridge in “one of the seediest and most dilapidated places you have ever seen,” produced greater success, revealing a “brilliantly painted frame full of grotesque heads and shells and fishes . . . almost certainly a Mathias Lock.” Storyteller
Labour has pledged to cancel the City Technology College programme to release ￡100 million immediately for repair and decoration of dilapidated schools.
The hotel we stayed in was really dilapidated.
The taximan pulled up outside the dilapidated doorway and Mr. Campion got out. Flowers for the Judge
Every night at eight o'clock, as dependably as the sunset over the Gulf of Mexico, the dirty window of a dilapidated cigar-maker's cottage on Catherine Street in Key West was suddenly haloed with a reddish glow.
The coast dipped and curved as we stroked north toward Punta Concepción, past small coves, raggedy desert peaks, and a few dilapidated fishing shacks.
Some houses are still very dilapidated, but new people seem to be moving in all the time and fixing places up.
shoes so dilapidated as to be unwearable
Current plans show Burton now wants to take away a section of the house re built in the last century - which his architects say is "dilapidated" - and replace it with a building of a similar size, using reclaimed red bricks and old timber and iron work. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
By the middle of the 1600s engravings depict the tower as three storeys high but dilapidated.
IKENNE, Nigeria — After driving two hours — skirting truck-size potholes, fording a flooded town and dodging a body — Pieter Swanepoel arrives at a dilapidated farm about 50 miles from Lagos, Nigeria. Catering to New Tastes as Incomes Climb
The house was converted from a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom dilapidated property in need of lots of care and attention to a 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom architecturally design house. Apartment in Dublin by Fuse Interiors
We have further the drunk being portrayed as a ruminator, albeit an intoxicated one, attempting to find a point of reference in the dilapidated territory of the Tenderloin, and these thought processes result in an act of bemused micturition. Vollmann’s Aesthetic Realism : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
Returning to his roots in the Edinburgh area, he settled at Little Kellerstain and started to buy up dilapidated properties in the city's West End, converting and upgrading them into flats and bedsits for rental.
The Kilbracken family home was damp and dilapidated and the estate neglected, its sole stock consisting of one aged cow.
The vacant shed in a local park may look old and dilapidated, but it could soon become a lively place of play for children if the latest in a long list of ambitious revamp plans bears fruit.
With little more than a goat, a wheelbarrow and a frankly dilapidated hovel to his name, he obviously does not have an internet connection of his own.
Legal action will be taken against the tenants of a dilapidated landmark York building - unless they agree to surrender the lease.
A dilapidated cab bounced along a pitch-black dirt road and we could see in the silhouette, large structures shadowed around us.
The dilapidated barn detracts charm from the landscape.
All over, you'll find the dramatically dilapidated shells of haciendas - the former homes of the conquistadors, where plantation, processing plant and stately home were one and the same.
His gun was not loaded, nor did he wear either shot-bag or powder-horn; and his weapon, an ancient Highland Scotch "fusee" changed to percussion, seemed as worn out and dilapidated as the owner. Adrift in the Ice-Fields
The dilapidated restaurant was wedged in between two larger buildings, and the entrance was in the narrow alley on the left.
One set piece in particular, a flashback scene showing Hauser in a violent, gladiatorial confrontation with his former boss an even hammier than usual Ben Kingsley takes place in a dilapidated theme park that looks to have been a replica of ancient Rome. Hullabaloo
The gorgeous, gritty, dilapidated, detailed, lived-in, fully realized future that Syd Mead created for Ridley Scott not only remains unsurpassed, it's never even been seriously challenged. MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 3)
Above all, the idea was to create a beacon to further development in a formerly dilapidated area.
The neighborhoods are populated with old, dilapidated houses with overgrown lawns full of cinder blocks and headless dolls floating in rusty water barrels.
Leaving the church I crossed the graveyard to the large dilapidated house which sprawled beyond an uncut hedge. ULTIMATE PRIZES
A councillor then proposed that the convent of St. Cecilia, or the now deserted and dilapidated odeum should be given up to them; but Horapollo objected explaining very clearly that such a crowd of sick in the midst of the city would be highly dangerous to the healthy citizens. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
Unless your home is totally dilapidated, steer clear of a complete redecoration prior to selling: it will arouse suspicion.
And twenty-five floors below, on a dilapidated parking area, lay a crumpled form. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
For American civilians serving in Afghanistan, the last stop before they ship out to Kabul or Kandahar is a dilapidated, vaguely foreboding institution that once served as a farm colony for “feeble-minded” boys, and later was a state mental hospital. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: December 21, 2009
Everything is dilapidated: broken or smashed windows and even the paint of the walls started to peel off and the school fence has also been removed.
Many mortuaries are dilapidated or poorly designed with inadequate viewing facilities.
A dilapidated door separating the akhara from the outside world opens onto a small courtyard littered with unwashed utensils and gas stoves. Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News
The more dilapidated eastern end of the Turbine building was partly stripped and cannibalised for other parts of the building.
Recently, we have witnessed a powerful custom to adorn one's sukkah with images of tragic dwelling places throughout our country and in the developing world: FEMA trailers, African huts of wood and thatching, flimsy tents, dilapidated shacks and even small cars that have become makeshift homes. Rabbi Aaron Alexander: Huts Of Joy, Homes Of Shelter
He came out of an alley across from an abandoned, dilapidated office building with boarded up windows and missing blocks from the upper stories.
Maidstone rented a tiny apartment at the top of a very dilapidated building in the Vomero.
The dilapidated barn detracts charm from the landscape.
The bill requires owners to undertake remedial work on dilapidated buildings.
Apparently it's riddled with asbestos and so dilapidated that prospective buyers are warned not to venture inside.
Lodz was cruel and unusual. Singularly picturesque with its dilapidated buildings, dilapidated staircases, dilapidated people.
City Centre Townhouse by Fuse Interiors By Michael The house was converted from a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom dilapidated property in need of lots of care and attention to a 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom architecturally design house. Apartment in Dublin by Fuse Interiors
Snipers reoccupied the dilapidated hotel, a bank and the government building. Times, Sunday Times
The outside of the school is done up very nice to create a façade on the outside, but on the inside everything is dilapidated and decrepit.
Surprisingly enough, some of our schools, believe it or not, can't be wired because they are so dilapidated, which is why I've been trying to get a school construction initiative passed through Congress. Remarks By The President In Discussion On The Digital Divide
The dilapidated facilities and overstretched editorial staff prove how illusory this prediction was.
When he brings the car to a halt we find ourselves outside a dilapidated, three-storeyed structure bearing a hotel sign, the last letter of which is slightly askew.
He hijacks a dilapidated paddleboat as the villagers gather supplies for the 300-mile river voyage.
I live in an old dilapidated building that has poor tenants and relatively cheap rents.
With a view to helping the environment, the couple bought a mountainside property in west Cork with a dilapidated cottage and a barn attached.
We want to finish `ere by next week because we've got some work to do for the dilapidated Board. GOODBYE CURATE
Stepping firmly on, yet cautiously supporting himself with his piked staff, he traced the light foot steps of his guide along the bridge of dread, and followed her through the ruined sallyport, to which they ascended by stairs which were equally dilapidated. Anne of Geierstein
Impressive churches and small greens dot the city, and there are plans to renovate many of the dilapidated waterfront buildings.
This most uncomfortable vehicle is a kind of wagonette, with somewhat dilapidated canvas curtains, through which the wind whistled most unpleasantly, being utterly insufficient to keep out the cold. A Winter Tour in South Africa
The mailbox is dilapidated, the porch has a dog on it, the porch chair is a rocker and the man rocking in the chair is smoking a pipe.
Teddy thought this was a very unkind cut of the mate at poor Jones's boots, which were a dilapidated pair of bluchers that needed mending badly; still, he couldn't help smiling, which didn't seem to please Mr Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle
Our neighborhood in Wicker Park, just northwest of downtown, is a mix of Polish bakeries, Mexican apothecaries, and dilapidated brownstones with men who sit on stoops and sing as I pass by: Que bonito culo! The Memory Palace
It replaces buildings that were so dilapidated the roofs leaked in several places.
Way back when I was ten, my brother and I used to play in a dilapidated shed on the edge of the Gloucester-shire town where I was brought up.
A second curiosity in the fort is a small unimportant temple, now much dilapidated, which is considered as very sacred by the Hindoos. A Woman's Journey Round the World
During the early history of Virginia, Yorktown was a place of much commercial importance, and there are again anticipations of a magnificent future for this dilapidated and desolated village. Yorktown, Virginia
In Sarajevo we found an overwhelming energy and bustle set against a backdrop of the ruins of dilapidated buildings.
He threw open the shutters of two windows to reveal a simple and slightly dilapidated room with a stone fireplace built out from one wall, and furnished only with two wooden cots and a bench.
He purchased his dilapidated old home, Rathloe House, with the intention to build a new abode on the site.
Developers buy old, unused, dilapidated hotels and redevelop them into brand new upscale luxury condos.
The young male dragon emerged fully from the dilapidated nest, his tiny claws softly tapping the stony cave floor as he took his first step.
Eventually I found myself lying supine on top of one of those dilapidated benches between the lockers, pretending to sleep.
He passed a dilapidated phone booth, the black receiver dangling from its cord inside the four shattered walls. DO NO HARM
She was living with Green Jumper in a dilapidated barn conversion in Essex. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
This colourful collection of adverts certainly livens up what would otherwise be just another dilapidated shop, and acts as an unofficial noticeboard of the latest music releases.
As a result, the siheyuans became compounds occupied by many households, and the number of dilapidated houses increased.
There was a little covered walkway from the gite to the large but dilapidated dove house with tiles made as you mentioned but along the edge there were marks made (by man) that resembled pigeon footprints. L'accent tonique - French Word-A-Day
Occupants have been evicted from yet another dilapidated city office block that is being used illegally as residential accommodation.
On this jumbotron, the Kings ran a series of images depicting Detroit as full of dilapidated, garbage-strewn buildings and burned-out cars.
The dilapidated gate could not deter her, the creaking shutters could not dishearten her, the spider web-laced windows could not dissuade her. Three-Minute Fiction Favorites
Green hemolymph oozed out, working its way slowly down the side rail of the dilapidated ladder, its pungent odor thick in the air. MINUTES TO BURN
Several of the children living in the dilapidated facility had psychological problems, officials said.
To his dismay, the verges were furrowed with tyre marks and when he reached the field, it was full of dilapidated vans.
This man had the air of a person who is seeking lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint – Marceau. Les Miserables
If it goes ahead, it will allow the council to dispose of several dilapidated office buildings around the city.
Already some dilapidated gravestones have been laid flat as a temporary measure by staff checking the stability of memorials across the city.
There was a little covered walkway from the gite to the large but dilapidated dove house with tiles made as you mentioned but along the edge there were marks made by man that resembled pigeon footprints. L'accent tonique - French Word-A-Day
They were standing outside a dilapidated little shack that seemed to be tilting rather hazardously to the left.
ADEN, Yemen -- A dilapidated freighter crammed with thousands of desperate refugees from Somalia's civil war docked Wednesday at the port of Aden, officials reported. ANC Daily News Briefing
Labour has pledged to cancel the City Technology College programme to release ￡100 million immediately for repair and decoration of dilapidated schools.
The rabbiter looked at a pair of dilapidated worsted socks and at one protruding toe; he was not sure whether he had gone to bed for the second time in these or in his boots. Stingaree
The more dilapidated eastern end of the Turbine building was partly stripped and cannibalised for other parts of the building.
By now it was spitting with rain but as we looked out across the water at some rusting ships and a rather dilapidated sea defence the spots soon turned to heavy drops and it quickly began to pour.
S.venty-five properties in the S. Ellen Jones neighborhood have been identified as dilapidated, according to officials charged with managing a $6. 75-million rehabilitation project. Evening News and Tribune Homepage
But her work undermines any notion of glamour - her renditions of simians, jawbones and ancient pottery are like junk found in the attic, or in the back room of a dilapidated museum.
There was a little covered walkway from the gite to the large but dilapidated dove house with tiles made as you mentioned but along the edge there were marks made (by man) that resembled pigeon footprints. L'accent tonique - French Word-A-Day
She was patching a pair of his trousers, while his lean body was distributed over two chairs, his feet dangling in dilapidated carpet-slippers over the edge of the second chair. Chapter 3
Unless your home is totally dilapidated, steer clear of a complete redecoration prior to selling: it will arouse suspicion.
After about 50 paces, though, Sheriff Tom motioned for me to remove my pack and pointed at a dilapidated stone building with a leaning front porch in front and a stinky outhouse in back.
The estate, once genteel but now a sprawling mass of dilapidated bedsits and flats, had a bad drug problem.
Instead of spending money on replenishing the dilapidated library, the university is investing in lame television advertisements.
Buildings were dilapidated, stained, and charmless, except for the magnificent churches which, small or large, were made warmly inviting by their many icons and lit candles.
The award of lottery and European cash marks the end of a five-year campaign to replace dilapidated facilities in Scotchman Road.
Another 1.3 percent fell into the category of dilapidated units, defined as failing to provide safe and adequate shelter.
A dilapidated old man sits on the veranda of a dilapidated old house.
The building had been dilapidated by neglect.
It also opens with Polyp -- a pompous architect whose designs have never been built and whose blunt shovel of a head recalls seedier characters from Chester Gould's "Dick Tracy" -- in his dilapidated apartment, watching a video of himself having sex with his ex-wife. Chicagotribune.com -
I have just been down to Myrtle Walk and felt physically sickened by its filthy, dilapidated state.
There was every kind from little boats to huge cargo ships, from dilapidated sailboats to magnificent barges.
The hotel we stayed in was really dilapidated.
A short walk from her doorstop, past some pastures and a dilapidated barn, is the fir and cedar forest that covers about one-third of her property.
On the area of the croft land, there is also a further dilapidated farm building which could have the potential for residential conversion.
For some time now the tables have remained unused and the room became dilapidated.
The Beverly Hills cops drive pristine cars; he drives an old, dilapidated junker.
The old dilapidated building where the two women meet each other is made even more gloomy and doleful by an unexpected downpour.
The rehearsal room was a dilapidated building in a hospital complex.
The dusty, dilapidated house was a constant hazard and the largely uncatalogued collection remained insured only as general contents. The Times Literary Supplement
They renovated the dilapidated and rambling buildings as much as they could afford to and began to update the studio's ageing equipment.
Today only about five Gardaí work out of the portable cabins behind the dilapidated station which closes at night.
The pavilion, formerly in a very dilapidated condition, was renovated in 1917 at the expense of the compradore of a large Hankow firm.
Living quarters are usually dilapidated farmhouses, field barracks, small shacks, or impoverished shelters.
Besides, the building is in a dilapidated condition and maintenance work has not been carried out for years.
When at length all of them had been brought to the surface their condition was exceedingly dilapidated; indeed only two of them were in a condition to float; but although it was evident that the carpenter would be busy for many weeks before they would be seaworthy, their reappearance was a tremendous relief. The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition
Many dwellings in this mixed commercial-residential area were dilapidated and in need of substantial rehabilitation or replacement.
The project began with the sale of the church's old meeting hall, which was housed in a dilapidated coach house at the vicarage.
True, we're located in a dilapidated strip mall in a seedy part of town, but people have cars, don't they?

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