Sentence examples for dilapidated block from inspiring English sources

This 128-room hotel is across the street from the Aloft on a slightly dilapidated block, once home to abolitionists, that's becoming a hotel row for bigger names like Indigo.

Sitting in his cramped flat at the top of a dilapidated block in Reading, the white-haired ex-soldier explained that the men who once served Queen and country proudly were barefoot beggars in their homeland.

Behind the landmark Judson Memorial Church, which frames the sky south of Washington Square Park through its ornate campanile, there is a quaint, if somewhat dilapidated, block of mustard and red brick houses.

On the stoop of a house on a dilapidated block in Englewood, the south side Chicago neighbourhood that tops the city's statistics for murder, drug addiction, teen pregnancy and most of other indices of social dysfunction, are eight young African-American men and two or three women.

There are, famously, stark photographs of Duncan Smith close to tears standing outside a dilapidated block of flats, apparently experiencing a conversion to modern conservatism.

Henrion's overwhelming impression, he said, was of a "huge kind of tragedy of dignity, especially for the women who have to queue for four or five hours in the morning to use a tiny, dilapidated block of pit latrines, which then get horribly flooded when there's rain".

A badly behaved child is threatened with banishment to Fisksätra, a poor enclave a few train stops away, where immigrants from 100 countries cram into dilapidated blocks of flats.The most equal country in the world is becoming less so.

I need only walk through any of the many dilapidated blocks of my city to know that the status quo is bankrupt.

I drove slowly past a series of Khrushchevki — the five-story, instantly dilapidated housing blocks built throughout the Soviet Union by Khrushchev, and loathed by all.

"Last week it was a dead chicken in a bag, feathers and all," said Ciaran Staunton, a 46-year-old Irish-born resident who has made cleaning up this dilapidated two-block stretch of his otherwise quaint neighborhood a mission of sorts.

As they peered through the windows at block after block of dilapidated, abandoned homes, a young community organizer spoke eloquently about the area's revitalization efforts.