Sentence examples for dilapidated instruments from inspiring English sources

As Messiaen told the story, he and three friends performed under the most trying circumstances — using dilapidated instruments, including a three-stringed cello — and won the hearts of five thousand hardened soldiers.

The three-storey buildings have been left pretty much as they were abandoned in 1979, slightly dilapidated with jerry-built cells, barbed-wire fences and medieval instruments of torture.

Again, the kitchen was dilapidated.

"It looked dilapidated," she said.

It renovated dilapidated clinics.

Some museums are dilapidated.

Many hospitals and schools are dilapidated.

that are growing more dilapidated each year.

Poland's physical plant is dilapidated.

Many of the remaining houses are dilapidated.

It ha a relaxed, slightly dilapidated look.