Sentence examples for derelict to from inspiring English sources

"It was too derelict to save".

On Monday, the department insisted, through a spokesman, that it had "followed leads" and that it would "have been derelict" to ignore these.

I wish I had a gift for long-form because it's almost derelict to have spent all these years without writing for television.

The defense argued that Mr. Johnson should have listened to Officer Conway's demands to stop and that Officer Conway would have been derelict to allow the teenager to escape if he believed he had a gun.

But it may also have been derelict to look only at Dr. Lee, especially since the most concrete evidence of spying was the walk-in document, and its secrets had been distributed to hundreds, if not thousands, of people at military installations and missile contractors.

- PFoyer My father-in-law is nearly 70 and he gets an enormous feeling of pride walking up to Parkhead from Dalmarnock train station, having seen the area change from thriving to derelict to regenerated (ish) over the 50 years he has been going to watch Celtic.

The other would be to say that a lawyer's conduct can sometimes be said to be so derelict as to amount to abandonment of the client.

The ad, one of his latest, cuts from Mitt Romney in the driver's seat, to derelict houses, to Technicolor footage of workers pouring out of auto plants in happier times.

In downtown Johannesburg, those who have lost their homes often move to the next derelict building to stay close to their livelihood.

She said the idea was to use derelict sites to create new woodland, with some trees being planted on former agricultural sites owned by the Woodland Trust and local authorities.

Some have been reused as housing for animals or as storehouses; others have been abandoned to lie derelict due to the cost of removing them.