It was dilapidated, now the nursery had moved out to Chantilly, but he dreaded the idea of pulling it down.
When Irene Gambino first visited what would become her family's apartment in Milan, it was dilapidated and smelled bad.
Her voice has never been pretty or in tune, but at this concert it was dilapidated whenever she wasn't shouting, and it flagged as the short set went on.
Mark Kalinin, a graphic designer, found this space in early 2011: it was dilapidated and crumbling, and the owner offered to rent it at a reduced rate if the tenants took charge of everything, from door hinges to plumbing.
"It's dilapidated and obsolete, sure, but I could say the same thing about the apartment where I grew up, in Bayside, Queens," said Howie Rose, the Mets' play-by-play broadcaster on WFAN.
"It was dilapidated by the end, the toilets didn't work and you had to queue in the rain for coffee.
Fourteen years ago, the first time I stepped into that building, it was dilapidated.
By the time George Luttrell inherited the castle in 1571, it was dilapidated, with the family preferring to live in their house, now known as Court House, at East Quantoxhead.
