Sentence examples for dilapidated structure from inspiring English sources

Patients who were admitted to the country's only psychiatric hospital, known as Kissy Mental, in Freetown a dilapidated structure that was destroyed by rebels in the civil war and only partly reconstructed were chained to their beds.

In his piece on Venezuela last week, Jon Lee Anderson writes about the failed city of Caracas by way of the Tower of David, a looming and dilapidated structure that he describes as "a ziggurat of mirrored glass topped by a great vertical shaft, [rising] forty-five stories above the city".

Rumored to have started in the DJ box, the blaze quickly took hold of the already dilapidated structure and though the few staff inside got out unharmed, one end of the building completely collapsed, narrowly missing the 25 firefighters battling to subdue the blaze.

Rumoured to have started in the DJ box the blaze quickly took hold of the already dilapidated structure and though the few staff inside got out unharmed, one end of the building completely collapsed, narrowly missing the 25 firefighters battling to subdue the blaze.

Mr. Naval was trying to get government clearance to renovate a dilapidated structure.

Others began arriving and started building cardboard hovels under its dilapidated structure, until more than 300 people were living there in a makeshift slum without sanitation.

The troubles became a crisis in June, when the park's landlord threatened to end its lease if it did not fix dilapidated structures, add fire exits and resolve sewage problems and a possible termite infestation.

In the late 1960's, the city was considering tearing down the dilapidated structures.

"Here, blighted dilapidated structures are being replaced by quality new homes that will bring people in".

"It would be lovely," he said, gazing at the dilapidated structures.

He assembled his village from dilapidated structures and built others, painting many of them intense colors like fuchsia.