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Discover Ludwig"dilapidated for" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is in a state of disrepair or decay. It can be used in a variety of contexts, such as describing old buildings, cars, or even relationships. Example: The dilapidated fort stood as a reminder of a bygone era, its crumbling walls and rusted gates a stark contrast to the modern city surrounding it.
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They should also be about the disruption to neighbourhoods, the heartache of being forced to leave a much-loved home, the possible adverse social consequences of dispersing vulnerable people, and so on (it's worth underlining here that the £3m Southwark council house had been too dilapidated for anyone to live in for years).
They selected a 4,400 square foot, 99-year-old building at the intersection of the two main tourist routes in Seaside -- this building had stood empty and dilapidated for more than 10 years.
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For decades, the Charleston City Market (188 Meeting Street; 843-937-0920; thecharlestoncitymarket.com) had been saddled with a tourist-trap reputation, best known as a dank, dilapidated location for hawking cheap trinkets.
Though the exterior of the church is splendid the interior is a bit dilapidated, yet for me this merely heightened its emotional appeal.
Still, John Kavulich, a senior adviser for the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, said Cuba had a history of pulling back on perceived big steps toward freer enterprise and might wrestle to explain how such high-dollar compounds could coexist with often dilapidated housing for everyone else.
The school is surrounded by a neighborhood with boarded-up houses, empty lots with overgrown grass and dilapidated storefronts with for-rent signs.
The regulation, the first of its kind in Indonesia, set up a system to verify victims and their living relatives and prioritize them for city services like money for rehabilitating dilapidated housing and educational scholarships for children.
In the disputed areas, people say they will fight for dilapidated villages and infertile stretches of semi-desert which hardly seem worth dying for.
The building was dilapidated and selling for the princely sum of $565,000.
When he was 3, his parents, both doctors, bought a dilapidated upright piano for his older sister Akofa.
Although the housing project was dilapidated and infamous for violence, drugs and gangs, former residents also remember a strong sense of community.
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