dilapidated

Example Sentences

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Beneath moss-covered cinder blocks, dilapidated stone markers, and a handful of headstones, more than 200 children who died in state custody between the 1870s and 1930s are buried.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

The licenses come a few weeks after Venezuela’s interim government made changes to its hydrocarbon law to ease state control of its dilapidated oil industry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

But it’s here, in places like the dust-swept grouping of cinder-block houses and dilapidated buildings that make up Al Kawd, where the real-world impact of those cuts can be most clearly felt.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

Many residents have little choice but to stay in their dilapidated homes.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

They traded some whispered intelligence as I played, and the music-master, seated at our dilapidated spinet, closed his eyes.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson