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Examples
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Dilapidated homes leaned against the darkness like a snaggletoothed grin.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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Dilapidated homes leaned against the darkness like a snaggletoothed grin.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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Dilapidated buildings with no air conditioner in the summer or heat in the winter.
Etan Thomas: Waiting for "Superman": It's Time to Act Etan Thomas 2010
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Dilapidated or unimportant buildings were replaced altogether with replicas of structures designed to harmonize with their surroundings.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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Dilapidated walk-ups and boarded-up tenements were crammed in on top of each other.
Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation Matt Myklusch 2010
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Dilapidated by war and deserted, the house was a monument to Prabhakaran and the LTTE.
Anuradha K. Herath: Sri Lankan Rebel Leader's Childhood Home 2010
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Dilapidated shouldn't be used for a wood structure, since it comes from the Latin word for stone.
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Dilapidated buildings with no air conditioner in the summer or heat in the winter.
Etan Thomas: Waiting for "Superman" : It's Time to Act Etan Thomas 2010
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Dilapidated re-purposed school buses, now civilian blue, ferried us from the city into a compound abutting a state prison.
Homeless 2010
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Dilapidated or unimportant buildings were replaced altogether with replicas of structures designed to harmonize with their surroundings.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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