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
• Restoration of the dilapidated house began; it was opened as an inn in the 1960s.
  — Russell Yip; Story By Tony Bravo, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The Cabrini Homes could not stop the spread of blight on the near north side—the area was surrounded by the same poor, dilapidated housing that had been cleared for the project.
  — Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 19 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Kumar purchased the dilapidated former Burger King last year and plans to convert the building into a commissary and test kitchen to create new menu items for his other restaurants and to provide training for his cooks.
  — Tyler Williams, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2025
• The film follows three characters – a traditional beekeeper, a healer and a priest attempting to save a dilapidated church – and features archival material dating back to the 1930s.
  — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 25 Mar. 2025