Sentence examples for rather dilapidated from inspiring English sources

For now, the mine-action centre is just a rather dilapidated building without staff or offices.

Sainsbury's is locked in a legal battle with Bristol Rovers over its "old-fashioned and rather dilapidated sports ground".

Wyman sold the Mercedes and bought it back in a rather dilapidated condition in 1991, by which time the windows had been changed.

Its corner of town (Rua Jairo Gois, in Brás) is now rather dilapidated and dark (and a bit scary by night).

Over my dead body!" But now Ashmount, which was, admittedly, in a rather dilapidated state, is on the move to a new site and a new building which the woman has just seen, and it is amazing.

The Banks family, though solidly middle class, is racked with financial anxieties, and possessed of "the smallest house in the Lane," which is "rather dilapidated and needs a coat of paint".

"It was in the beginning rather a dilapidated area and everybody had a good time on Saturday and Sunday driving their cars and smashing things up.

The family still does not know what happened to him, but in the 1960s, the Gamtkitsulashvilis managed to get back some 0.15 hectares of vineyard and the old cellar, which was in a rather more dilapidated state than when their grandfather used it.

The Liberal Democrats have argued that money should be spent on repairing dilapidated schools rather than on setting up new ones.

Rather than retreating into dilapidated facilities or existing on the fringes of society, she hopes artists will join those advocates to ensure the city not only acts on their behalf but also listens to their ideas.

Ladies, I appreciate the effort you've made for your mate's 25th, but those looks are calling to mind a saucy production of The Mikado at the end of a very short pier in a dilapidated seaside town rather than something out of the Marquis De Sade's boudoir. .