Sentence examples for for a dilapidated from inspiring English sources
In Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, for example, sales within a few-block radius can range from $250,000, for a dilapidated home.
A visitor here might notice a big blue sign on the outskirts that reads, almost mockingly, "Happy Land," the name for a dilapidated amusement park.
For a dilapidated community trying to stave off the crack-cocaine dealers from taking over the neighborhood, Mitchell was the elixir.
Initially, they figured they would buy a wreck and renovate it, and in fact they had signed a contract for a dilapidated building.
He said he paid about $20,000 for a dilapidated four-bedroom house in a neighborhood where other properties are worth triple that.
L'ABBAYE NOUVELLE, FRANCE -- When Patrick and Debbie Burnham paid the equivalent of 1,400 for a dilapidated farmhouse in this southwestern hamlet in 1973, they had very little gutting to do.
VADIM PERELMAN'S "House of Sand and Fog" is about a homeless woman and an exiled Iranian air-force officer struggling for possession of a dilapidated California beach house.
When he was 3, his parents, both doctors, bought a dilapidated upright piano for his older sister Akofa.
NEW ORLEANS — As Democrats and Republicans continue to feud over the budget, and the federal government prepares to shut down, the effect of the budget war on the fate of a single proposal for the renovation of a dilapidated public housing project in New Orleans may seem inconsequential.
French investigators looking into the possibility that kickbacks were paid by the French oil company Elf Aquitaine for the purchase of a dilapidated oil refinery in the former East Germany have issued an international arrest warrant for Dieter Holzer, a businessman with links to German intelligence who is suspected of having paid millions of dollars in bribes.
He expected these to be adequate for the taking of a dilapidated fort with about 60 defenders, which was the latest intelligence he had when the expedition left Lachine, near Montreal, on June 23.
