Sentence examples for had a dilapidated from inspiring English sources

Instead of a post-production team we had a dilapidated desk in the corner of a friend's office and a dying old MacBook.

It had a dilapidated and ill-equipped, although semi-functional, health center managed by non-resident male CHEWs who provided services on an irregular basis.

The restaurant itself has a dilapidated feel.

"Having a dilapidated railroad car from which tourists can grab some brochures, along with some Porta Pottis next to it, just doesn't make sense when tourism generates $3 billion for the Long Island economy," said David V. Rettig, the Long Island regional planning and program manager at the state Department of Transportation.

And if that happens, preservationists will have a dilapidated landmark on their hands, without the means to restore it.

Every hoarder in America has a dilapidated, gross, plastic playhouse defying decades of decay in the backyard.

When Gary questioned his wife's desire to open a restaurant in what had been a dilapidated ice cream shop in a fairly nondescript shopping mall near the 55 Freeway, his mother-in-law remembers telling him, "Don't worry, don't worry, Gary.

Anticipating that the neighborhood could become a tourist attraction, the city helped restore Water Street, which had a few dilapidated carriage factories and a crumbling brick building considered the birthplace of the General Motors Corporation.

Now we have two problems: a dilapidated empty shell for sale along a neglected block on Main Street and an unbuilt splendor that will cost the church $50 million near the Hollywood Freeway.

Since Dec. 30, when local officials learned that two 17-year-old boys had entered a dilapidated, shuttered neon-sign factory and taken at least 20 pounds of metallic mercury, 175 residents have been tested for exposure, 9 families were forced to leave contaminated homes (2 have since returned) and 7 people have tested at dangerously high levels and been referred for treatment.

At its lowest ebb, the Stockman House had become a dilapidated photo studio.