Sentence examples for or derelict from inspiring English sources

"Toads" are Temporary, Obsolete, Abandoned or Derelict Spaces.

The sidewalks were mostly empty when I passed through on a sunny Monday morning, and on the side streets a number of the houses were ramshackle or derelict.

This appreciation for the value of life as it's lived in existing communities, no matter how poor or derelict, is apparent throughout the show.

After about 20 minutes' wait, I noticed a young man lying spreadeagled under a tree 50ft away, looking hungover or derelict.

One-third of its 140 square miles are vacant or derelict: there are empty and collapsing structures even in the heart of the city.

Faced with the loss of jobs and tax revenues, the municipality has sought to help by taking legal title to abandoned or derelict factories and the machinery inside.

Friendship, sex, and family life are all shadowed by drugs, violence, police brutality, and the relentless struggle for money, and these crises are given voice in soliloquies of vernacular eloquence, whether from strivers or derelicts.

"He looked like a classic writer, or a derelict.

Factories only recently abandoned in The Full Monty era have either been demolished or remain derelict.

There's solace in a patch of scrubland or a derelict building because it seems to understand.

The popular belief that a salvor becomes the owner of the property, at least if it was abandoned by the owner or was derelict, is erroneous.