How to Use derelict in a Sentence

derelict

adjective

• The officer was charged with being derelict in his duty.
• The house where Floyd grew up next to the projects is derelict, its windows boarded up.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2020
• The neighborhood changed, and by 1973 the building was derelict.
  — Andrew Silow-Carroll, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• But there are thousands and thousands of open source projects, and many of them are more or less derelict.
  — Tony Bradley, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• The story begins with the Yi’s move to a derelict plot of land in the middle of nowhere Arkansas.
  — Zoe Guy, Marie Claire, 25 Apr. 2021
• The searchers crest a hill where a derelict trailer creaks in the wind, then follow the slope down toward a clearing.
  — Eric Ogden, Marie Claire, 10 June 2019
• The farmhouse is empty and the little shop made of cinder blocks feels derelict.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
• The flashpoint for those set-tos was TCC’s purchase of two large, derelict properties on the edge of town.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• Per El País, the building had been in derelict condition for years.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2021
• Once home to 5,000 people, the village has become a ghost town of shuttered shops and derelict homes.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• There were rows of derelict locomotives parked to one side.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2023
• Sirens whine in the background; informants call with tips; shots of derelict cityscapes suggest the loneliness of life on the lam.
  — Sean Paulsen, The New Yorker, 5 July 2023
• But some of the structures remained in place for more than a decade, including a derelict roller coaster.
  — Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• And its rule of law, rickety at best, is shockingly derelict for an EU country.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2023
• But the modern Congress has become derelict in their duty.
  — Tod Worner, National Review, 25 Oct. 2020
• The common public cry is that California needs more big dams and the state has been derelict in not building them.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• For much of the past century, the Atlanta way of dealing with dangerous and derelict housing was to tear it down.
  — Alan Judd, ajc, 30 Oct. 2017
• In the '20s, though, the neighborhood was derelict and slated for demolition.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2020
• And over the years, while the prospect of a definitive renovation glimmered on the horizon, the structure grew more and more derelict, leaky, and cramped.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 Apr. 2021
• The facade of a derelict house in Mau Ping Shan Uk, a village located deep in one of the territory's country parks.
  — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
• The price tag: $1.2 million for a small, derelict cabin on a narrow, overgrown lot measuring a little more than a third of an acre.
  — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2017
• The first duty of the commander in chief is the protection of US citizens, and Trump clearly was derelict in this duty.
  — Peter Bergen, CNN, 28 May 2022
• The aim is to transform what is a derelict brownfield site on the edge of the River Mersey into a thriving new waterfront neighbourhood.
  — David Prosser, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• Both were meant to bring the financially derelict cities into solvency, at any cost.
  — Derek Robertson, The New Republic, 12 Jan. 2022
• But most of the resplendent old churches, pagodas, and monasteries were now derelict shells or razed to the ground—the Khmer Rouge had demolished many places of worship.
  — Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
• And no president should be so derelict in duty of protecting our country, right?
  — NBC News, 18 Feb. 2018
• The majority of the pollution that washes onto the beaches of Hawaii is derelict fishing gear, Corniuk said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2023
• Five of the 15 hearings were part of the committee’s effort to investigate whether Mayorkas was derelict of duty.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• The Democrats have been very derelict in letting the Republicans have that word and not having their own definition of freedom.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
• At the same time across town, another agent is in the basement of a derelict church trying to disarm the reverend’s equally sadistic brother in hand-to-hand combat.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 19 Aug. 2023