Sentence examples for look dilapidated from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, all but a few are beginning to look dilapidated.

Most of the buildings and vehicles in his neighbourhood look dilapidated.

But as even the best Brutalist buildings aged, water stains and crumbling walls made them look dilapidated.

Gothic spires point accusingly at the night sky, gargoyles leer down on the alleys below and the city's landmarks and streets look dilapidated and broken.

Public transport may look dilapidated but it functions reasonably well: urban ferries, suburban trains, smoky buses and motorised rickshaws shunt around the city's 14m residents.Driving, however, often means sitting for hours in traffic jams.

"It looked dilapidated," she said.

One moment the city looks dilapidated and ill kempt, then suddenly it's as dashingly aristocratic as sable and tiaras.

They must certainly have looked dilapidated, with their Roman monumental structures serving as quarries for rebuilding elsewhere; early medieval public buildings were, as noted, smaller and also probably fewer in number the cathedral and the local royal palace being the most important ones by far.

Another of the continent's traditional powerhouses, Nigeria, look somewhat dilapidated.

That has boosted Manchester and Birmingham as well as London at the expense of out-of-town office parks, which look increasingly dilapidated.

She showed me photos of the West Bromwich property: it looked dilapidated and damp.