Sentence examples for as the dilapidated from inspiring English sources

With this neat twist, Kanon pulls us into his noir world, where men's motives may be as shabby as the dilapidated city that surrounds them, and no one is quite all he seems.

Checks began this month at points where the train usually stops and migrants board – locations such as the dilapidated old station at Tenosique, near the Guatemalan border, a couple of hundred yards from the shelter.

Construction of the Grand Storehouse north of the White Tower began in 1688, on the same site as the dilapidated Tudor range of storehouses; it was destroyed by fire in 1841.

However, critics like Diane Roberts and David R. Jarraway view Faulkner's use of Southern gothic genre tropes, such as the dilapidated plantation house and the focus on mystery and horror, as self-conscious modernist commentary on man's "warped relationship with the past" and the impossibility of determining true identity.

By September 1928, Field felt he could not travel as much with the dilapidated Model T. To the dismay of the student body the vehicle was discarded by Dean Field in 1928 and a Model A was purchased.

Until recently the CSMVS was as dilapidated as the rest, but today the museum has over 1m visitors a year, a handsome government subsidy and a devoted group of private fund-raisers.

I can't help but feel the show has become as dilapidated as the building they're renovating.

It's a heart-rending sight, as are the dilapidated cars and crumbling homes in a society that a generation ago enjoyed standards of living and welfare comparable to much of Europe.

It was a run-down wooden building, he said, about as dilapidated as his current rehab.

School buildings as dilapidated as the warehouses (called "public housing") they lived in.

FOR a country as wealthy as America, the dilapidated state of its infrastructure sure is a sorry sight.