dilapidate
Example Sentences
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The corner lot on which the club stands is now surrounded by hundreds of dilapidated and abandoned buildings occupied by squatters.
When Anna Winger, the co-creator of the new Netflix series “Transatlantic,” relocated to the vibrant French port city of Marseille last year, she found a dilapidated villa awaiting her.
From New York Times
The legal dispute has generated hundreds of pages of court filings, documenting dilapidated conditions inside many of the nonprofit’s buildings and giving an inside look at the trust’s upside-down finances.
From Los Angeles Times
An initial purchase became a passion project, and eventually Cioffi bought many of the hamlet’s houses, transforming abandoned stables and dilapidated farmhouses into guest rooms, a restaurant and a wellness center and spa.
From New York Times
Their premise is simple and heart-rending: Kids in poorer areas like theirs are forced to go to school in dilapidated buildings, second-class citizens in an inequitable, wealthy state.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
