Sentence examples for present dilapidated from inspiring English sources

In the same way, La Santé in its present dilapidated state belongs firmly to the last century – a melancholic reminder of a different, disappearing civilisation.

Even in his present dilapidated condition, he has automatic access to a pure bel-canto style that sounds artificial in the throat of every other singer, Plácido Domingo included.

But in the present dilapidated state of what is supposed to be the main artery between Mozambique in the north and Botswana in the south-west, it can take up to double that, especially when the police are feeling particularly impecunious.

It may be hopelessly dilapidated at present, but the fort was still a bargain.

Jak and Daxter are presented with an assortment of cliffs and dilapidated bridges to traverse, but you just know that they will also come across those mysterious floating platforms that are so much a part of these games.

Literary and homespun, dilapidated and grand, it allows outsider auteurs to present epics on a foundation of bent guitar chords.

During the present reign (King Rama IX), many of the buildings once more became so dilapidated that they needed to be demolished altogether.

Then it presented Nicholas Wright's new "Cressida" in the West End, with a magnificently dilapidated Sir Michael Gambon as a trainer of the boy actors who took female roles in early-17th-century England.

From that night until the present day, the house has stood empty and mostly neglected, and it's become increasingly dilapidated in the process.

Again, the kitchen was dilapidated.

"It looked dilapidated," she said.