dilapidated - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • mansion: The setting is the elegant but dilapidated mansion of a court nobleman.
  • tenement: Mill Street also included a complex of crowded and dilapidated tenements offering accommodation to the poorest in society ( Trinder 1982, 9 ).
  • hut: The dilapidated mud huts have been replaced with better built dwellings all with corrugated steel roofs.
  • barn: Then one day a stranger fetches up in their dilapidated barn.
  • garage: At the top of the garden is a dilapidated single garage.
  • cottage: A row of dilapidated cottages behind the house provide the next clue; in one, an upper floor window is surprisingly clean.

Modifying Another Word

  • somewhat: The fact that worship had for long been offered in a somewhat dilapidated Temple did not appeal to him.
  • rather: However, the shelter which is going to be used for cooking was rather dilapidated.
  • seriously: In a nutshell, the seriously dilapidated Center risks being abandoned by Sport England in 2004.
  • slightly: The golden cupola of the cathedral looms high above long white houses and the whole place has a slightly dilapidated air.
  • very: She had asked for the funeral to be held in the Chapel, now very dilapidated.
  • much: Nearby are his greenhouses, now much dilapidated, where once he grew his prize orchids.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: The present farm was built in 1847 to replace the previous building which had become dilapidated.
  • look: The station platforms were looking very dilapidated by this time.

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