Sentence examples for dilapidated with from inspiring English sources

The João Havelange stadium, the venue for the athletics, is dilapidated, with few working lifts or toilets.

It was just the kind of shop my mother would have liked — packed tightly, a bit dilapidated, with stacks of old books on the floor. . . .

Many of its houses are dilapidated with the detritus of family life sitting in the yard — rusting old bicycles, discarded broken toys, collapsed furniture.

The three-storey buildings have been left pretty much as they were abandoned in 1979, slightly dilapidated with jerry-built cells, barbed-wire fences and medieval instruments of torture.

They must certainly have looked dilapidated, with their Roman monumental structures serving as quarries for rebuilding elsewhere; early medieval public buildings were, as noted, smaller and also probably fewer in number the cathedral and the local royal palace being the most important ones by far.

The building, a 16th-century palace also in Mudéjar style, is delightfully dilapidated with swirling tiled walls, elaborate domed ceilings with inlaid wood and overgrown gardens that are perfect for a siesta or for glimpsing the palace's current residents, the Dukes of Medinaceli. 2 p.m. 11) FUTURE WALK Seville is not all ancient history.

The school is surrounded by a neighborhood with boarded-up houses, empty lots with overgrown grass and dilapidated storefronts with for-rent signs.

New York-based artist Yazmany Arboleda had arrived in the city for a different assignment at the beginning of summer, but was soon struck by the number of large buildings "with broken windows, totally dilapidated, filled with debris".

The colonial quarter, Casco Antiguo, mixes dilapidated decay with gleaming restorations.

Many of the houses in the neighborhood are dilapidated mansions, with wrought-iron balconies and arched windows and doors.

@GrantFaulkner: Favorite #summerreading memory: Stowing away at my grandparents' dilapidated farm with a stockpile of books and soda.