derelict

Example Sentences

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She thinks derelict buildings and closed shops should be repurposed into small data centres instead.

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A senior Merseyside police officer urged parents last year to "please talk to your children about the dangers of entering empty and derelict buildings", after a spate of trespass incidents in Southport.

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Tucked between a derelict bodega and a restaurant supply store, the door would, to most, appear only as vacant space.

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About a kilometre from this derelict mine is a residential area of a few houses, a broken-down church building and a hospital with some damaged windows, offering basic services.

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Laura and Tom remain, but say they feel trapped, and hate having to raise their son in a building that most people think is "derelict".

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