derelict

Example Sentences

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D5 - the squat bungalow - now sits derelict, out of place among a row of plush, well-kept homes.

From BBC

It has stood derelict and crumbling ever since, and in 2016 it was ravaged by fire.

From BBC

She disappeared on the night of 7 October with her battered and blood-stained body found in the basement of the nearby derelict Old Exchange building the following morning.

From BBC

The spot that Berens and Johnson found was mostly home to empty lots, mobile homes and derelict housing.

From Seattle Times

Parsifal and Kundry, her hair a weird amalgamation of black and white, embraced in the final act not far from a derelict mining machine, his shirt reading “Remember Me” and hers “Forget Me.”

From Seattle Times