Sentence examples for virtually derelict from inspiring English sources

Somehow he gets himself appointed to the virtually derelict station of Buggleskelly in Ireland, where Albert (Moffatt) and old Jeremiah Harbottle (Marriott) are his assistants.

His first practice was in a virtually derelict building, and he slept on a mattress on the floor, working all hours to make it work.

This 1858 example of the giant pub hall survived use as a church, fire, flood and war intact, but was virtually derelict, after its use as a rag warehouse, in the 1960s.

Its currency, the battered kip, was virtually worthless, its economy derelict, it exported little but opium (though plenty of that) and offered its people lives of unremitting torpor.

There is a single certainty: much as a new luxury Hilton hotel to be built on the banks of the Wear alongside the Stadium of Light should transform a once derelict post-industrial riverscape, Di Canio's Sunderland will be virtually unrecognisable from O'Neill's class of 2012-13.

Most of them end with him towing a derelict home.

But others are derelict.

It stood derelict for years.

It's derelict, it's fucking derelict".

"Everything was derelict.

Both were derelict.