Sentence examples for dilapidated as from inspiring English sources

However, it is possible for kissing bugs to gain entry to American houses that are dilapidated, as happened in one case of human infection in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina.

Herat was as dilapidated as ever.

Whatever its current state, it could not be as dilapidated as what he inherited.

It was a run-down wooden building, he said, about as dilapidated as his current rehab.

I can't help but feel the show has become as dilapidated as the building they're renovating.

The coaches, gleaming with teak and brass, had once languished, dilapidated, as a tailor's premises in Shrivenham, which sold uniforms to graduates of an anti-aircraft gunnery course.

The city, at its most seductive on Saturday, has a bit to answer for in Eric Bloodaxe, Guy Fawkes and Steve McClaren; and Bootham Crescent, quaintly dilapidated, seems as old as its Mystery Plays.

In 2003, Bruce announced that he intended to sell his rental properties in order to devote more time to political activism, but was cited by Colorado Springs for keeping dilapidated properties as recently as 2007.

Four cinematographers are credited with the grubby, often hand-held images that nod at vérité and give a sense of a gently dilapidated world, as in need of a polish as the school curriculum.

The list of obstacles is daunting, including both longstanding troubles — the shortage of skilled labor, the absence of a solid legal system, deeply embedded corruption and dilapidated infrastructure — as well as new ones, including surprisingly high prices.

Mr. Ferrer was preparing to cite his work rebuilding dilapidated housing as Bronx borough president, while urging that New York, in its rush to recover, not neglect problems with housing, health care and education.