Sentence examples for dilapidated down from inspiring English sources

Having brought McFarland in, Clough reluctantly decided to turn his attention to Tottenham Hotspur's double-winning superstar Dave Mackay, travelling to London on the advice of his assistant Peter Taylor despite feeling he didn't have a hope of persuading the Scottish international to join this "humdrum, dilapidated, down in the dumps club".

"It's always been beautiful here — it was just dilapidated, run down".

"It's always been beautiful here—it was just dilapidated, run down". Now there's a John Varvatos store in the old CBGB and Cherche Midi down the block, with a fifty-two-dollar dry-aged prime rib.

Du Bois finally sold the property to a neighbor in 1954, who had the house (by then dilapidated) torn down.

Wings was back in action, but in a fairly dilapidated, cut-down state.

Housing advocates have complained it has focused too much attention on rehabbing homes in just a few neighborhoods, and on tearing down dilapidated homes elsewhere.

I am drawn to old historic buildings that are dilapidated and falling down than brand new sky scrapers.

In 2009, Bernanke's boyhood home was sold at foreclosure and the junior high school he attended became so dilapidated and worn down, that a student decided to write to Congress and ask for help.

Prince George's was cracking down on dilapidated housing complexes, but arresting an owner was unusual.

Speaking on behalf of the applicant, the architect said: "The existing building is neglected and dilapidated and almost closing down.

It all calls for more hustle and definitely more imagination: in Somalia there are a million impediments to the aid business — the Shabab, the broken-down state, dilapidated ports and airports, American government sanctions, a legacy of corruption and the sheer dangers of working in full-fledged anarchy haunted by militias, warlords, glassy-eyed gunmen and even 21st-century pirates.