Sentence examples for a dumpy building from inspiring English sources

In 2005, he and his wife, Deborah Wingert, a dance teacher, paid $900,000 for a "dumpy building" on the southwest corner of Hicks and Union Streets, a two-story structure facing the highway.

"He said, 'Oh, my gosh, Nancy dressed me, and I'm in Texas and I'm wearing shoes.' " The world headquarters of Mr. Carroll's boot empire is a dumpy building in North Houston known as RJ's Boot Company.

With treasonous relish, this crown was seized in 1961 by the Empress State Building, a dumpy pile of concrete and glass, ignored by all but those unlucky enough to work near it.

I liked it there, and I thought the building was just right, a dumpy little news factory with a good product.

NEAR the other end of the street is the small Piazza del Catalone, a picturesque square with ivy-covered buildings and an oddly shaped fountain resembling a dumpy temple.

The most despairing image in Chris Ware's magnificent new graphic novel, "Building Stories" — and there are plenty of candidates — depicts a dumpy middle-aged couple, naked in their bedroom.

Murphy describes it as a "dumpy oversized budgie".

A dumpy one-bedroom next to the IHOP?

What I really wanted was a dumpy person in a dumpy environment who wasn't an idiot but who wouldn't threaten me.

The Palace of the Republic is a squat thing, a dumpy rectangle of concrete and steel.

I mean, the Emporium is even kind of a dumpy place," he said.