Sentence examples for Becoming dilapidated from inspiring English sources
Working with the founder, Eugene Ford, the first chief executive had made a specialty of using a variety of complicated financial arrangements to revive assisted low-income housing projects that had become or were at risk of becoming dilapidated, crime-ridden disasters.
The company's owner, Laurence Kirschel, told London writer Peter Watts in 2014 that he could have got rid of the guitar shops years ago had he wanted to and that the relatively low rents the tenants had been paying meant that some of the buildings were becoming dilapidated.
Increasingly, the appropriation of the parish church revenues led in many cases to churches becoming dilapidated and unable to attract educated priests.
Around that time, the condemned bleachers on the visitors' side were razed, but the rest of the facilities remained, becoming increasingly dilapidated as the years passed.
The condition of the castle deteriorated again in the 18th century, becoming overgrown and dilapidated, and by the 19th century the Hassell family were using it as a farmhouse.
True, too, more neighborhoods that were once considered dangerous or dilapidated are becoming gentrified and more attractive to developers.
We walked on down the track, the night becoming more complete as dilapidated houses towered over us ominously.
And all of this means that young people lose out: We can't afford to buy, while rental prices for dilapidated share houses are becoming untenable.
This 128-room hotel is across the street from the Aloft on a slightly dilapidated block, once home to abolitionists, that's becoming a hotel row for bigger names like Indigo.
Relatives and friends say he had wanted to build a dot-com like those he had read about on the other side of the world -- the Amazon.coms, eBays and Yahoos that were becoming household names even in this industrial expanse of dilapidated tenements and factories.
A badly behaved child is threatened with banishment to Fisksätra, a poor enclave a few train stops away, where immigrants from 100 countries cram into dilapidated blocks of flats.The most equal country in the world is becoming less so.
