Sentence examples for dilapidated streets from inspiring English sources

Britain's dilapidated streets and pretty new developments were contrasted with Europe's openness, cleanliness and experimentation.

By afternoon, the dilapidated streets were empty of all but military vehicles and the four-wheel-drive pickup trucks favoured by the Seleka.

After an espresso in the square, we headed to the fishing port of Sciacca and spent a happy afternoon wandering its picturesquely dilapidated streets.

Volney, travelling in Egypt and Syria, took a detour to visit the ruins of Palmyra, wandering for several days through the dilapidated streets, home now to no one but jackals and himself.

"Jack the Realtor": In the nineteen-seventies, this anonymous real-estate agent lured young women to dilapidated streets in Tribeca and tried to sell them vacant loft space at suspiciously low prices.

No country, not even a state of mind like Los Angeles, has a more nostalgic collection of post-World War II American cars than the Caribbean nation, to judge by the two- and three-tone specimens that time and history have left behind and running on the dilapidated streets of Havana.

The main road is dirt, but lined with impossibly tall, dilapidated street lights that do not work.

(Raychel Santo, 24) Each narrow, dilapidated street in Cairo ran along the veins in my body.

In the end, all his figures, like the buildings on that dilapidated street he walked with Picasso, seem to stand by force of habit.

It is a black, dilapidated street, avoided by all decent people, where the crazy houses were seized upon, when their decay was far advanced, by some bold vagrants who after establishing their own possession took to letting them out in lodgings.

Porgy told the story of two African Americans, a disabled beggar and a drug-addicted prostitute, their love and tragic lives in Catfish Row, a once grand but now dilapidated street of Charleston.