How to Use dilapidated in a Sentence

dilapidated

adjective
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  • On one side of the stage, housing the band, is the dilapidated façade of a suburban home on a tilt, as if dropped from the sky.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The goal hung on a dilapidated barn on a dirt driveway.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The church demolished the dilapidated school but used the bricks in the new construction.
    — al, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The home's dilapidated kitchen features a wall of jack-o'-lanterns.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 May 2023
  • At the time, the site contained an dilapidated older home, Ms. Cer said.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2023
  • In other words, putting a gleaming new bathroom in a dilapidated house is like putting a bow on a burro.
    — Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Look down and there’s the PCH, that artery of iconic road trips, with super-exotic sports cars and dilapidated surf vans.
    — Kristin Scharkey, Sunset Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Then Lynsey is on a bus heading back to her dilapidated working-class childhood home in New Orleans, which is where the bulk of the story takes place.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Our run-down apartment in the boondocks of Houston looked better than the view of the tombstones right outside our dilapidated home on wheels.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The city has also used social media to respond to the photos of dirty, dilapidated Paris.
    — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Old and dilapidated, paint peeling off the wood – white above, red below.
    — Gregg Doyel indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Jan. 2023
  • When the decision is made to sell the dilapidated town, however, the woman and her home in the center of town become obstacles to the plan.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 18 Mar. 2023
  • But when sections of the rickety ladder break off from the dilapidated tower, Becky and Hunter are left stranded.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Both the boys are from Jindires, a small town about twelve miles away dotted with dilapidated cinder-block apartment buildings and small shops.
    — Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The rest of the dilapidated former theater will be razed for surface parking.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The dilapidated home has three inhabitants: a teenage girl who never leaves the house, a drunken man, and a bible-reading house cat.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 6 Oct. 2022
  • City leaders had decided to raze the dilapidated dwelling and build a playground.
    — Patrick C. Salland, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Some complain the agency hasn't done enough to maintain the dilapidated homes in its portfolio.
    — Christine MacDonald, Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The roads and parkways are dilapidated and overcrowded, as they’ve been built in a bygone era and are not wide enough to cater to the massive growth in population.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • Two estranged sisters team up to fix a dilapidated beach house.
    — Ali Hazelwood, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
  • Scattered across the neighborhoods of Lake Charles, blue tarps cover dozens of dilapidated roofs.
    — Cathy Bussewitz and Martha Irvine, Chron, 2 June 2022
  • The truck entered a walled compound, and the migrants were herded into a dilapidated warehouse.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The bad news was that progress had been slow, and the house remained a series of dilapidated courtyards, with a yellow dumpster in the front yard filled with soggy mattresses and splintered wood.
    — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 27 July 2022
  • Miller was trying to raise funds for his first project, a dilapidated office building, a few blocks from SEC headquarters.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 9 July 2022
  • Replace your dilapidated device with a stick vacuum cleaner, one that'll give you ample freedom to move around the house and clean with ease.
    — Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Most have been turned into apartments or single-room dwellings, and a lot of them are completely dilapidated.
    — Spike Lee, ELLE Decor, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The hard life of hardcore football hooligans in a dilapidated mining town where operations have long since shut down and the future looks bleak.
    — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Artist Yto Barrada began renovating the dilapidated theater in 2006, bringing a huge splash of color in the heart of the city.
    — Graham H. Cornwell, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Briscoe dreams of a day when volunteers and social-media savvy teens head to the park to serve as docents or raise awareness about a need to fund the renovation of dilapidated structures.
    — Brennon Dixsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Milwaukee's boat house — one of the city's quirkiest landmarks — will have its dilapidated lighthouse removed and replaced with a new one.
    — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2022

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