Sentence examples for dilapidated shell from inspiring English sources

SCATTERED throughout the city are properties that share a singular deprivation -- capital for the construction of new housing, either on vacant land or within an existing dilapidated shell.

Today, the old hospital is just a dilapidated shell of a six-story, red-brick building.

We carry on, slashing a path through bushes and branches until we come upon the dilapidated shell of a house.

There were rusted, bombed-out tanks and husks of old planes lining the runway at the dilapidated shell of an airport.

For most of us, destination in mind, the station is just a dilapidated shell, convenient for catching the train to Cambridge or Edinburgh.

While it's sad that Schmidt's old home is gone, sadder still is the fact that Woody's is still standing, a dilapidated shell propped up amid desolate windblown fields and filled with memories of a severe childhood.

Three or four occupied houses stand interspersed among dilapidated shells.

The rest, homes that once belonged to friends and neighbors, were nothing more than dilapidated shells. .

Along the way, palatial residences and expensive new Chinese construction projects are interspersed with the dilapidated shells of buildings bombed during the civil war that ravaged Brazzaville between 1997 and 1999.

Now we have two problems: a dilapidated empty shell for sale along a neglected block on Main Street and an unbuilt splendor that will cost the church $50 million near the Hollywood Freeway.

Starting in North End and pushing flush against the well-known New Brighton and Kwazakhele townships, you encounter old rusted shells, dilapidated mill houses, and the megalithic Goodyear, Eveready and PPC (cement) factories.