Sentence examples for decrepit homes from inspiring English sources

But Bibb County, where Macon is, has a 22.4 percent poverty rate that is equally visible as residents linger on the front porches of decrepit homes that local community groups have been working to help clean up.

The trial is focusing on the fate of six victims who were abused in a cell behind a swing-away door that Dutroux built in the cellar of one of his seven small and decrepit homes.

This city of 18m people is Pakistan's economic lifeline, and the port through which most supplies reach NATO forces in Afghanistan.Away from the ritzy villas of Defence and Clifton districts, the people of Karachi's 3,500 square-kilometre (1,350 square-mile) sprawl live in decrepit homes and apartment blocks set on narrow, filthy streets, where gangs rule with near impunity.

I am inside a small, decrepit home where the ceiling is collapsing into the kitchen.

Dave Jones, Mackay's predecessor, was the architect of those near misses, having started the revival of a club which, when he arrived, had no money, no players, no training ground and the decrepit home that was Ninian Park.

And the Park View Hotel at Central Park North and Lenox Avenue was, until a few years ago, a decrepit home mostly for hundreds of African immigrants trying to get a foothold in New York.

In that 2010 film, a young Russian truck driver gets lost, physically and every which way, in a backwater in which the country's heavy history feels as if it had been etched into every face, twisted road and decrepit home.

Walls' extraordinary recounting of growing up in a decrepit home with no electricity or heat high up on the hillside in Welch paints a vivid picture of despair and battered dreams.

It was through a local news listing in 2015 that I found out about the sale of a now-decrepit home in Georgetown that Julia Child had once owned, which I wrote about for an article published today.

White-washed mansions no higher than four floors, students from the respected Kiev-Mohyla Academy and street markets amid decrepit Soviet homes sum up the whole experience of being in Kiev: a bit eclectic, somewhat Soviet and still struggling between West and East.

As of late August, the council was considering entering a FEMA buyout program to demolish some of the most decrepit Newtok homes.