Sentence examples for dilapidated towns from inspiring English sources

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In once dilapidated towns, new houses have replaced old ones and old ones have new roofs and solid windows.

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Sara, who previously has never left her native Sweden, arrives in the dilapidated town of Broken Wheel in Iowa to visit Amy.

Images from the recognizable but dilapidated town center showed shapelessly dressed people in scenes I could swear were late 19th-century.

The site of Spanish City is teeming with workmen restoring it to its former glory – part of a masterplan to turn the dilapidated town's fortunes around.

In return for a zoning change that allowed the construction of a 133-unit rental building, called 2 Cooper Square, on the site, the development group renovated the dilapidated town house, working closely with the landmarks commission.

The Kasese office, about 200 miles west of Kampala toward the center of the continent, is a squat, white-and-blue building surrounded by a dilapidated town that once served a copper mine, now defunct.

Imam Salahuddin Muhammad could hardly miss Shahed Hussain when he first appeared three years ago at his mosque in the dilapidated town of Newburgh, just 60 miles up the Hudson River from New York.

She hopes the accord could prompt pilgrims visiting Jesus's hometown to head to Ramallah as well and help it emulate Nazareth's conversion from a dilapidated town into a tourist destination.Above all, officials hope it will go some way towards linking the fractured parts of old Palestine.

1 Casinos Don't Cure Town's Ills The once dilapidated town of Tunica, Miss., has bloomed into the nation's third-largest gambling center, after Las Vegas and Atlantic City, despite the sluggish economy that has driven most states and the federal government into deficits.

Such deference, a holdover perhaps from the days of the Hays Code, is entirely lacking in Marie Phillips's first novel, "Gods Behaving Badly," in which the 12 major deities of ancient Greece uneasily cohabit in a dilapidated town house in 21st-century London, dwelling just above the city's "greasy tide" of human flesh.

Each location in the Light World corresponds to a similar location in the Dark World, usually with a similar physical structure but an opposite nature (e.g. a desert in the Light World corresponds to a swamp in the Dark World, a peaceful village in the Light World corresponds to a dilapidated town of thieves in the Dark World).

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