Sentence examples for dilapidated in from inspiring English sources

Many of its 19th-century galleries were badly dilapidated; in places, water dripped from the ceiling into plastic buckets.

I recall the building itself being pleasantly dilapidated; in my memory, it slumped one way and then the next, depending on where I stood.

It is so dilapidated in places that estimates of its total length vary from 9,000 to 21,000 kilometres, depending on whether missing sections are included.

The Capitol, finished in 1899 after three decades of construction in multiple architectural styles, is a National Historic Landmark, but it had become so dilapidated in recent years that construction workers could fit their fists through the holes in the red terra cotta roof.

That access, they noted, was vital to the city's success in getting private developers, nonprofit community groups and tenant cooperatives to rehabilitate thousands of buildings in tax arrears that had been abandoned or dilapidated in the 1970's and 80's.

Decades of conflict have left the DRC's transport infrastructure among the sparsest and most dilapidated in the world.

The British captured the dilapidated fort in 1818.

Later he worked with a partner rehabilitating dilapidated apartments in Prague -- which he still does.

Many developers and home buyers are also not willing to take a chance on dilapidated properties in distressed neighborhoods.

Even for those familiar with São Paulo's favelas, the first sight of the flimsy, dilapidated shacks in the Favela do Moinho comes as a shock.

His website states he buys "dilapidated properties in need of development".