Sentence examples for dilapidated down in 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". 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.

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

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

America's subway cars are widely dilapidated, as riders in systems in Boston, New York, DC and SF can attest.

Many dilapidated houses have been pulled down in the older districts inside the former city walls and have been replaced by multistory apartment buildings.

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.

The British captured the dilapidated fort in 1818.

When Woody Guthrie's dilapidated boyhood home was ordered torn down in the late 1970s, the demolition reflected the strained relationship between conservative Oklahoma and the native son who became famous for his folk singing and leftist politics.

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.