Sentence examples for is so derelict from inspiring English sources

"She came to us at the right time, having written this seething letter, about how could it be the way it is, so derelict," he said at the meeting.

It was so derelict, we'd refer to it as the "To Kill a Mockingbird" house.

Warnaco is also asserting that Mr. Klein was so derelict in his design duties that he hurt the jeanswear business.

The other would be to say that a lawyer's conduct can sometimes be said to be so derelict as to amount to abandonment of the client.

Now rebranded as Brixton Village, four years ago it was so derelict and lifeless you couldn't have given away gold jewellery there.

Her premises in Brighton were so derelict that she joked that green became the Body Shop colour to camouflage the mould on the walls.

It is difficult to believe that the State would have been so derelict in attempting to secure the witness' presence at trial had it not had her [p80] favorable preliminary hearing testimony upon which to rely in the event of her "unavailability". The perfunctory steps which the State took in this case can hardly qualify as a "good faith effort". In point of fact, it was no effort at all.

There were so many derelict cousins, estranged brothers, secret adoptions, and unknown family relations.

That is why Mr Duggan is so keen to remove the more than 80,000 derelict buildings which the Blight Removal Task Force, a public-private partnership, wants to demolish.

Circulation is so low, just 5,000 copies, Harmsworth comments that the Observer "lay derelict in the Fleet ditch".

Even Staffordshire University – where derelict buildings are so commonplace that two years ago the local council sold a number of them off for £1 a piece – has bought into the luxury student accommodation market for the first time this year.