How to Use derelict in a Sentence

derelict

1 of 2 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

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derelict

2 of 2 noun

• It was a run-down neighborhood filled with drugs addicts and derelicts.
• Valdeluz is now a curious mix of the shiny and the derelict.
  — Raphael Minder, New York Times, 12 July 2019
• On his, the skeletal ribs of a derelict ship stick up from the water.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
• The derelict house sat on Sunrise Drive, on a prime lot on a bluff with views of the Chugach Mountains.
  — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2018
• And then there are the rumors that the derelict estate is haunted.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 July 2020
• All told, dozens of species have been found trapped inside derelict traps.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 12 Oct. 2022
• Old derelict steel structures still stand on the coastline.
  — Nick Rahaim, SFChronicle.com, 18 June 2019
• The site is enormous and comes with many challenges, not the least of which is derelict buildings that will have to be knocked down.
  — Dan Radel, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2022
• A decade later, in 1998, the derelict art gallery reached the end of its run — and the mudflats would get more thorough cleaning.
  — Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• In fact, Cyrano’s room three years later, that was in there as well, in this derelict cow byre.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Feb. 2022
• Removing derelict boats has long been an issue in the state.
  — Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2023
• The outskirts of Delta Park have become a magnet for homeless tents and derelict RV’s.
  — Dan Springer, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2022
• When Saraceno took over the derelict brick building in 2012, the sale came with restrictions.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
• She’s greeted by two derelict nuns — one mad, the other angry.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
• On the other hand, sitting closed and derelict has done little for it or the neighborhood.
  — Curbed, 11 Dec. 2023
• Some parts of derelict spacecraft will survive reentry and reach the surface.
  — Martin N. Ross, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2020
• In the film, Natalia, 30, moves from the big city to a rustic derelict house in a hamlet, La Escapa, buried in the countryside.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
• The aim is solely to cut down on derelict lines, which are not only harmful to fish, but to birds and other wildlife as well.
  — Matt Wyatt, Houston Chronicle, 5 Oct. 2019
• Many of the survivors of the Albert Street fire have moved into nearby derelict buildings.
  — John Eligon, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• Reached by phone on Friday, Spencer declined to comment on the derelict building.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• To keep inspectors from finding the pieces of loose asbestos, Huerta said, he was told to stuff it through holes in the deck of a derelict barge.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• Looming over the meeting was the impending fate of Skylab—then the largest structure in space, and by that time derelict for years.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
• But what about a derelict spacecraft, like the Eagle, the Apollo 11 lunar lander?
  — Michelle L.d. Hanlon, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2021
• The cast from Bram Stoker’s novel are transposed to space junkers, who come across the derelict spaceship Demeter.
  — Vulture, 13 Aug. 2023
• The whole economical and squalid enterprise, just this side of a derelict’s bindle.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
• Out their window the children can see a stone eagle atop the once-grand Hamilton Fountain, now derelict and filled with garbage.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 22 June 2018
• Roberts bought the derelict painting for just $600, according to Sotheby's.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 29 Jan. 2023
• Janeway has to deal with, and presumably mentor, a group of delinquent teens who swipe a derelict Starfleet vessel.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 16 Jan. 2021
• The Baghdad Tower is one of the Iraqi capital’s tallest buildings -- and for years has remained derelict.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• In 2016, a pair of businessmen bought the derelict prison from the state and turned it into a visitor attraction.
  — William M. Gurstelle, Twin Cities, 15 June 2019

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