Sentence examples for into dereliction from inspiring English sources

Phase 1 was a field distant, a ghost estate already sliding into dereliction.

Following the Great Depression and second world war, many of the camps fell into dereliction, however.

The 18th-century town hall and school of Archita have fallen into dereliction.

La Cava artfully applies comic antics to grimly melodramatic doings, involving a dishonest plutocrat's loveless marriage, a bitter sibling rivalry, and the hero's fall into dereliction.

By contrast, Liverpool have spent years working up grand plans which have not reached reality, while the once-proud streets around Anfield have sunk into dereliction.

The ageing, non-procreative body has become the weather-battered "fair house", fallen into dereliction because of want of "husbandry" on the part of the owner.

Far from being embarrassed by its "gay village", the city council touts it as a symbol of enlightenment and urban renewal.Gays are the philosopher's stone of urban planning the secret ingredient that turns dereliction into gold.

The state government also took seven policemen into custody for dereliction of duty after they were accused of accepting bribes and ignoring people clambering up the side of buildings.

A poem about the photograph of a soon-to-be-demolished wainwright's shop in Hungerford in the 1950s concerns time's inevitable destruction of common memory, of mundane certainties that have been made strange by the dereliction into which their very names have fallen: thill, strouters, shutlock.

Phoenix, in greasy long hair, a beat-up US Army jacket, and overgrown mutton-chop sideburns that make him resemble John Lennon in his early '70s 'lost weekend' period, looks decidedly untidy – you can just about smell how infrequently Doc bathes – but the actor, as he proved in the brilliant fake documentary I'm Still Here, is an expert at turning dereliction into something weirdly charismatic.

At that time a glut in the oil market had thrown the state into recession, turning the rural landscape into "a wasteland of dereliction and decay" strewn with failed gas stations, abandoned cars and rusting oil barrels.