Sentence examples for dilapidated boarding from inspiring English sources
Clemency has high hopes for Mrs Potchard's idyllic-sounding Wentworth Gardens – crushed when it turns out to be a grey, dilapidated boarding house offering humble lodgings to those unable to afford anything more salubrious.
When we read about and imagine Nassima being called a whore, when we imagine her being beaten by men who say she shouldn't surf (which has happened), when we imagine her ignoring the taunts and heading to the trash-covered beach with her dilapidated board anyway, we actually experience the pain she goes through every day.
The entrance faces a new plaza dotted with trees that links the Civic Center with the Golden Triangle, a neighborhood of once-dilapidated boarding houses that developers are transforming into a hip neighborhood for young urbanites.
Other parts of the Flint suburb, which has a population of about 25,300, have dilapidated homes and boarded-up storefronts.
Both are boarded up, dilapidated and shrouded in weeds and debris.
The Tribe (loosely developed from the director's 2011 short film Deafness) is set in a dilapidated state boarding school for hearing-impaired teenagers in Kiev, where neglected students are abandoned to a Lord-of-the-Flies-type anarchy, and where the violent bullies are the rulers.
Set in a dilapidated New Orleans boarding house in 1938, Vieux Carre captures the fragility and dignity of the powerless.
The structure is so dilapidated that it has been boarded up by some of the neighbors.
He bought the 10-bedroom property on Liberty Street in the heart of Savannah's historic district in 2004, even though it was boarded up and dilapidated.
So you anticipate disaster when she's hired to teach English to Chinese sailors — the only woman (and one of only two Americans) on board a dilapidated ship chartered for an oil survey in the Gulf of Mexico.
Workers have been busy boarding up the dilapidated buildings and welding shut manhole covers to protect visitors from lead paint and asbestos in the buildings and the aging steam tunnels that run underground.
