Sentence examples for dereliction into from inspiring English sources
Fontebussi itself is an ancient stone hamlet recently restored from dereliction into a hotel, restaurant and apartments.
Far from being embarrassed by its "gay village", the city council touts it as a symbol of enlightenment and urban renewal.Gays are the philosopher's stone of urban planning the secret ingredient that turns dereliction into gold.
In the nearby Chimney Pot Park, the developer firm Urban Splash – well known for repacking grungy urban dereliction into expensive apartments – have converted slate-roofed terraces into a place where media workers get to play at being working class: "Your very own, very modern Coronation Street", as the marketing blurb explicitly puts it.
A poem about the photograph of a soon-to-be-demolished wainwright's shop in Hungerford in the 1950s concerns time's inevitable destruction of common memory, of mundane certainties that have been made strange by the dereliction into which their very names have fallen: thill, strouters, shutlock.
Phoenix, in greasy long hair, a beat-up US Army jacket, and overgrown mutton-chop sideburns that make him resemble John Lennon in his early '70s 'lost weekend' period, looks decidedly untidy – you can just about smell how infrequently Doc bathes – but the actor, as he proved in the brilliant fake documentary I'm Still Here, is an expert at turning dereliction into something weirdly charismatic.
In a blog post, one passenger described one of Jubba's Antonovs as a piece of "Soviet dereliction" in which a family of five sat piled into three seats.
Phase 1 was a field distant, a ghost estate already sliding into dereliction.
The City Observatory on Calton Hill spent most of the past century descending into dereliction.
Following the Great Depression and second world war, many of the camps fell into dereliction, however.
The 18th-century town hall and school of Archita have fallen into dereliction.
He turned his PhD into Dereliction of Duty, a seminal book on the US military failure in Vietnam.
