How to Use dilapidated in a Sentence

dilapidated

adjective

• On one side of the stage, housing the band, is the dilapidated façade of a suburban home on a tilt, as if dropped from the sky.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2023
• The goal hung on a dilapidated barn on a dirt driveway.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2022
• The housing stock is old, and much of it is dilapidated.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 1 July 2021
• The church demolished the dilapidated school but used the bricks in the new construction.
  — al, 9 Sep. 2022
• The home appeared to be in a dilapidated state, as hinges were missing from the roof and a piece of the roof’s eaves appeared to have detached.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 14 July 2024
• The truck drove off the main highway, onto dirt roads, and stopped near a dilapidated shack.
  — Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
• In this one, from 1977, a dilapidated plane strafes a field of civilians mid-prayer.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
• The home's dilapidated kitchen features a wall of jack-o'-lanterns.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 May 2023
• What there is is a lot of dilapidated former mill sites that have docks.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Sep. 2021
• Salmon was one of the most poignant examples — in the last two decades, the district failed to pass around a dozen bonds to replace its dilapidated schools.
  — ProPublica, 24 May 2024
• So prices for bringing a dilapidated home back to life should start at about €5,000.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 21 Aug. 2021
• At the time, the site contained an dilapidated older home, Ms. Cer said.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2023
• The plan also pledges to upgrade and repair at least half of the country's dilapidated roads and bridges by 2030.
  — Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2020
• Kay's return to the house brings queasy nightmares about a dilapidated cottage on the grounds.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2020
• The deserted farm and dilapidated house across the road showed no signs of recent use.
  — Michael Standaert and Eva Dou, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2021
• My boyfriend bought a dilapidated red barn full of antiques from an old man in overalls.
  — Anna Borges, SELF, 28 Apr. 2020
• Halleck said a dilapidated house on the property would be razed as part of the overall project.
  — Karen Caffarini, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2021
• In other words, putting a gleaming new bathroom in a dilapidated house is like putting a bow on a burro.
  — Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2022
• But a $389 million deal to rebuild the dilapidated Pimlico and keep it as the home of the Preakness was hammered out last year.
  — Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com, 3 Oct. 2020
• By the 1970s, the zone had become dilapidated and crime-filled, part of the inspiration for the TV show Miami Vice.
  — Jennifer Barger, Travel, 3 Dec. 2020
• Look down and there’s the PCH, that artery of iconic road trips, with super-exotic sports cars and dilapidated surf vans.
  — Kristin Scharkey, Sunset Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
• Watkins sits on a dilapidated sofa, near the table and beat-up chairs someone threw way.
  — John Johnston, The Enquirer, 25 Dec. 2020
• Then Lynsey is on a bus heading back to her dilapidated working-class childhood home in New Orleans, which is where the bulk of the story takes place.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
• Our run-down apartment in the boondocks of Houston looked better than the view of the tombstones right outside our dilapidated home on wheels.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2022
• The city has also used social media to respond to the photos of dirty, dilapidated Paris.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
• In 2011, Lau fought to save the dilapidated home, using a local land trust program to reclaim it.
  — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2021
• People stayed warm under a tarp jutting from the back of the dilapidated two-story house.
  — oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2021
• To use the dilapidated zoo buildings as a cool backdrop for her son's and his girlfriend's prom photos.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2024
• Like a dilapidated old house, many of these agencies are in dire need of a total renovation.
  — Michael Zais, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2024
• The window overlooks an empty, dilapidated room with a table and bare walls.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025