Sentence examples for like dilapidated from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lafourcade, an architect, renovates historic homes and is known for transforming structures like dilapidated farm buildings for his wealthy clientele in the South of France.

Ms. Hernandez would organize meetings so people could deal with the bad things in their lives, like dilapidated housing, but often they would not show up.

These look like dilapidated army barracks by comparison, and the Butlin's website doesn't even attempt to dress them up: it refers to them as "no-frills Standard Apartments … complete with the basics you might need during your stay".

His grainy photo manipulations have a coarse texture and look almost like dilapidated wallpaper peeling off an abandoned house.

And along with racial stereotypes being torn down like dilapidated crack houses, Liberals and Conservatives are being redefined, maps redrawn, hopes fulfilled.

As they combed the settlement's favela-like shanties and dilapidated pre-fabricated concrete buildings, violence erupted.

The letter was a well-deserved tribute to the program's approximately 40,000 volunteers, who receive a $4,725 educational stipend in exchange for an intensive year performing valuable work like cleaning up dilapidated parks, tutoring at-risk children and helping communities to recover from natural disasters.

It was just the kind of shop my mother would have liked — packed tightly, a bit dilapidated, with stacks of old books on the floor. . . .

The former liked the dilapidated and distressed wallpaper at 33 Portland Place so much that she re-created the effect throughout the rooms used to film many of the therapy sequences.

From the outside, it looked like a normal, if dilapidated, red brick town house, but, inside, the studios were off a passageway that was so labyrinthine and long that there was no imagining where it might lead.

From outside, the Palm House looked more like a glasshouse, crazily dilapidated, its iron frame rusty and festooned with some kind of municipal tape, perhaps meant as a safety warning.