Sentence examples for bad repair from inspiring English sources

Most of the houses were in bad repair: roofs sagging, screens rusting out.

There have been times before when this has seemed in bad repair.

Vietnam already has a north-south highway and a parallel rail line, though both are in bad repair.

"What's tended to get damaged most was buildings of the Victorian period that are in bad repair.

There is a house, dark and closed and in bad repair, which westerners would see as a witchy house.

As far back as 1910, a real estate appraiser deemed the building in "very bad repair" and in need of a "general overhauling".

"Renaissance Intarsia" focuses on work still in situ but suffering from a few bad repairs over the years.

The opulence of the room was concealed beneath bad repairs, inadequate lighting and a patina of cigar smoke.

But at a recent Council hearing on the bill, Irving Loewenstein of the Department of Transportation said it would cost the agency untold millions of dollars, overburden its inspectors and increase the city's liability for accidents caused by bad repairs that property owners arrange on their own.

It poses a profound question — Can a bad mother repair the damage she has caused?

He has promised to produce quickly his plans to restructure bad loans, repair banks' balance sheets and inject some sense into the way the banks are run.