dilapidated

adjective di·lap·i·dat·ed

|Updated on: 15 Jun 2018

Examples: dilapidated in a Sentence

Definition of dilapidated

: decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse

a dilapidated old house

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Examples of dilapidated in a Sentence

a dilapidated car that had seen better days

Recent Examples of dilapidated from the Web

Around 1,200 students now pack a building designed for 750, many housed in a dozen dilapidated trailers.

— michael e. miller, Washington Post, "‘A ticking time bomb’: MS-13 threatens a middle school, warn teachers, parents, students," 11 June 2018
Buy Photo Over the course of his two-plus years in office, Mayor Kenney has been unable to make good on his signature campaign promise to rebuild the city’s dilapidated rec centers.

— inga saffron, Philly.com, "Queen Village makes room for memorial to a historic African American burial ground," 7 June 2018
Presidential Tower, the dilapidated icon looming over Spaghetti Junction, has officially been sold. Peacock Partnership intends to redevelop the property, built in 1973 near the convergence of I-285 and I-85, as senior housing.

— joshua sharpe, ajc, "Spaghetti Junction’s iconic, rundown tower sold for redevelopment," 7 June 2018
Huddled inside a tiny, hot room in a dilapidated fire station outside Johannesburg, South Africa, last summer, the crew watched as Camp masterfully manipulated his suspect into a confession.

— nicole sperling, HWD, "The Looming Tower: A Surprise Shout Was Key to Bill Camp’s Killer Interrogation Scene," 1 June 2018
Dale and Amy have shared glimpses of the home on Instagram, tearing up floorboards, drilling holes in walls, and filling Dumpsters with the dilapidated remains of the historic home.

— candace braun davison, House Beautiful, "Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s Coming Out With A Home Renovation Show," 1 June 2018
In 2010, the elder Wedbush was sued by Los Angeles County over the dilapidated roof on his Ladera Heights home.

— james rufus koren, latimes.com, "Ed Wedbush, fixture of L.A. finance, steps down from his troubled firm," 31 May 2018
At one camp, housed in a dilapidated primary school, two toilets serve 10,000 people.

— joe parkinson, WSJ, "Dwindling Farmland Sparks a Deadly Conflict in Nigeria," 27 May 2018
She was arrested, forcibly examined by a local health officer named Dr. Carney, deemed infected with gonorrhea and then syphilis, pumped full of arsenic, and imprisoned at the dilapidated Bay City Detention Hospital for three months.

— kim kelly, The New Republic, "A Forgotten War on Women," 22 May 2018

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