Sentence examples for derelict town from inspiring English sources

The derelict town hall says it all, really.

In a poor village outside Yozgat, itself the most derelict town in central Anatolia, the farmers live in rickety wooden huts in a narrow dell between folds of the steppe.

He called for Oldham's historic but derelict town hall to be saved from a £35m conversion into a cinema and restaurant complex, despite the renovation's popular appeal to voters.

A derelict town centre cinema in Kent that was branded as a "grot spot" has been demolished.

Demolition of a derelict town centre cinema in Kent, branded as a "grot spot" is due to start this week.

The owners of a derelict town centre cinema in Kent have been given one month to appeal a demolition order.

Vaguely thinking of themselves as rebels, high on drugs and taped music, they have sped through derelict towns, taken potshots at barking dogs and committed minor holdups.

But the Delta's seedy and semi-derelict towns are not exactly alluring.

Ten years ago it was a thriving community of 6,000 Jews, the Arab world's largest Jewish community; today it is a derelict ghost town inhabited by 40 men, 10 women and 13 children.

His humour sometimes seems brittle – the tree at Waverley station is impossibly fey – but the image of a half-derelict harbour town whose inhabitants are poised between drugged oblivion and self-conscious posing is one of his most evocative creations.

He said he'd spend three hundred million dollars building the second tower and another half billion to buy up derelict property around town.