Sentence examples for dilapidated far from inspiring English sources

Soaring overhead, closer to the Hudson River, was the forest of luxury condominium skyscrapers that has transformed the previously dilapidated far west side of midtown Manhattan.

Gil Nickel, a self-described "Okie from Muskogee" who didn't have his first glass of wine until he was 30 but who within a decade turned the dilapidated Far Niente winery into one of the most esteemed in the Napa Valley, has died.

With that in mind, we looked across the country for 10 homes that could be had for under $100,000, but weren't properties in dilapidated, far-flung neighborhoods.

But after a couple of days when it showed up, we were horrified: it was a broken, dilapidated old wreck, far too small to carry dozens of people.

Open Tues-Sat 11.30am-to 11.30am-to 4pm-to close, Mon cloSun Housed in an old hacienda once home to Santa Fe's fabled Sena family, La Cantina is far from dilapidated when it comes to craft cocktails.

Clinics are understaffed and dilapidated and often too far to walk to from their villages.

Prisons were dilapidated and severely overcrowded; guards, far fewer than needed, were poorly equipped.

It was an old servants' quarters that had been overtaken by kudzu and brush and it was far enough away from the main house and dilapidated enough that the boys had been able, like insects or spirits, to dismantle it from beneath the kudzu's cover.

To Sebald, the area resembled a "penal colony in the Far East" with its strange pagoda-shaped laboratories and dilapidated huts.

Far better, perhaps, would be for the government to repair dilapidated bridges and build high-speed trains.

So far, Mr. Grandi said, 36,000 Palestinians already living as refugees in Syria have crossed the border into Lebanon, mostly cramming into already overcrowded, dilapidated refugee camps.