How to Use dilapidated in a Sentence

dilapidated

adjective

• On one side of the stage, housing the band, is the dilapidated façade of a suburban home on a tilt, as if dropped from the sky.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2023
• The goal hung on a dilapidated barn on a dirt driveway.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2022
• The housing stock is old, and much of it is dilapidated.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 1 July 2021
• The church demolished the dilapidated school but used the bricks in the new construction.
  — al, 9 Sep. 2022
• The home appeared to be in a dilapidated state, as hinges were missing from the roof and a piece of the roof’s eaves appeared to have detached.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 14 July 2024
• The truck drove off the main highway, onto dirt roads, and stopped near a dilapidated shack.
  — Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
• In this one, from 1977, a dilapidated plane strafes a field of civilians mid-prayer.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
• The home's dilapidated kitchen features a wall of jack-o'-lanterns.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 May 2023
• What there is is a lot of dilapidated former mill sites that have docks.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Sep. 2021
• Salmon was one of the most poignant examples — in the last two decades, the district failed to pass around a dozen bonds to replace its dilapidated schools.
  — ProPublica, 24 May 2024
• By then, mice and cats had beat him to it, nesting into the corners of the Nora Store and in its dilapidated kitchen.
  — Angela George, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
• So prices for bringing a dilapidated home back to life should start at about €5,000.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 21 Aug. 2021
• At the time, the site contained an dilapidated older home, Ms. Cer said.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2023
• Meanwhile, the Eagles were able to rest their starters and still coast against the dilapidated Giants.
  — Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2025
• The plan also pledges to upgrade and repair at least half of the country's dilapidated roads and bridges by 2030.
  — Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2020
• Their warped ceilings and dilapidated walls were torn down and hauled away 33 years ago.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2018
• Kay's return to the house brings queasy nightmares about a dilapidated cottage on the grounds.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2020
• The deserted farm and dilapidated house across the road showed no signs of recent use.
  — Michael Standaert and Eva Dou, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2021
• But his family said the dilapidated house did not meet the city code and was condemned.
  — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 17 July 2019
• In wealthy states, dilapidated schools have been closed for fear of collapse.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• They were forced to toil long hours, live in dilapidated trailers and use their earnings to pay for their passage to the United States.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2018
• My boyfriend bought a dilapidated red barn full of antiques from an old man in overalls.
  — Anna Borges, SELF, 28 Apr. 2020
• But as the sisters played, a pit bull lunged in their direction and strained to break free from a cord tied around its neck and affixed to a thin rope in a dilapidated garage.
  — Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2019
• Many of the buildings that stood there in the 1980s were dilapidated and, well, pretty disgusting.
  — cleveland.com, 8 Sep. 2019
• Halleck said a dilapidated house on the property would be razed as part of the overall project.
  — Karen Caffarini, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2021
• In other words, putting a gleaming new bathroom in a dilapidated house is like putting a bow on a burro.
  — Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2022
• But a $389 million deal to rebuild the dilapidated Pimlico and keep it as the home of the Preakness was hammered out last year.
  — Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com, 3 Oct. 2020
• By the 1970s, the zone had become dilapidated and crime-filled, part of the inspiration for the TV show Miami Vice.
  — Jennifer Barger, Travel, 3 Dec. 2020
• They were forced to live in dilapidated buildings with mold, sewage, and rodent issues, and were confined to their rooms for weeks on end.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
• For nearly a thousand days, a small group convened in the shadow of the dilapidated building, waiting for Donald Trump to get reëlected, and then pardon their family members.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025