Sentence examples for slightly derelict from inspiring English sources

"The head office has been slightly derelict in their duty," he said.

We entered the walled courtyard of a local mosque, simple and slightly derelict.

In the nearby neighbourhood of Karradeh, the National Theatre (a once-grand, now slightly derelict building, built during the Iran Iraq war) is closed for restoration when I visit.

Then I smashed a hole through the ceiling of the shop because I wanted it to look slightly derelict.

Entering the club involves being escorted by a rather boorish doorman down a graffiti-laden corridor and into a large, slightly derelict-looking building.

Men as idle as the empty shops along the esplanade, as hopeless as the pier, the focal point of the place, derelict and slightly sinister, waiting for someone or something to come and breathe life and meaning back into it all.

The chief difference between the old book and the new, apart from the addition of anecdotes and an updated bibliography, is a somewhat more charitable attitude toward O'Neill's parents and a slightly harsher judgment of his multiple excesses as an alcoholic, adulterer, derelict and self-destructive American Prometheus.

"The hotel lay derelict: a grim reminder of what had happened there, but a intriguing (if slightly morbid) attraction for the few urban explorers".

The hotel lay derelict: a grim reminder of what had happened there, but a intriguing (if slightly morbid) attraction for the few urban explorers who made the hour-long motorcycle ride up the mountain.

Under the proposed agreement, the city will sell roughly 140 acres the land to Hantz Woodlands, a division of the Hantz Farms, at slightly over 8 cents per square foot, provided they maintain the land, demolish a number of derelict buildings and plant 15,000 trees.

The total population of central Liverpool grew by 3.3% between 2008 and 2012 while middle-class suburbs like Sefton contracted slightly.Before the city's docks were redeveloped, a historian called Liverpool's grand, then-derelict centre "an unwanted mausoleum" of its economic heyday.