Sentence examples for dilapidated stone from inspiring English sources

Why would a young, dynamic person pack up and leave buzzing Lisbon for a life in a dilapidated stone hamlet with just 40 residents?

At the landing, teetering on a dilapidated stone seawall, is the ramshackle, one-dinghy clapboard boathouse, barely bigger than a garden shed.

Even if you've never been to Cuba, Casco Viejo also conjures up your most romantic notion of Havana: dilapidated stone buildings, massive cathedrals and balconies with bougainvillea pouring over the railings.

The influence of Italian colonists may still be seen in the dilapidated stone porticos of Asmara's central market and the disused railway line running down to the Red Sea coast.

He bought the dilapidated stone building in the mid-1960's, rebuilt the place and within a decade his creative cuisine was being hailed as the dawn of New American Cooking.

Seventy years ago he was born here, on the grounds of the Sa Cova vineyard, in a dilapidated stone building built into the gentle slope of the hillside.

Situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty, the plot included a dilapidated 300-year-old stone barn.

"You're around these dilapidated farmhouses and broken stone walls and little family graveyards, and the atmosphere really seems haunted by the past".

I had my trusty tent strapped to my backpack so setting up camp on the sand would be straightforward enough, but I also knew that the four stone walls – albeit slightly dilapidated and certainly not heated – of a bothy (a disused building maintained by volunteers for walkers' use) were just a couple of kilometres away.

Again, the kitchen was dilapidated.

"It looked dilapidated," she said.