How to Use dilapidate in a Sentence

dilapidate

verb

• These days, the neighborhood is on the cusp of a comeback, equal parts dilapidated and edgy.
  — Sarah Dilorenzo, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2017
• The place is dilapidated, but fixing it up gives her inner strength.
  — Jeff Ayers, Orange County Register, 25 Apr. 2017
• The family tore down a fourth house that was dilapidated.
  — Devin Kelly, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 Oct. 2017
• Though the house was dilapidated, Goodman coaxed her kids into helping her spruce it up.
  — Brian Goldstone, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2019
• Much of their housing supply may be dilapidated, but that might not be a big problem for Amazon.
  — Joseph N. Distefano, Philly.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• There’s a sparkly new grocery store and dozens of the greystones that were near the complex and were once dilapidated have been renovated and modernized.
  — Lolly Bowean, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• It was riddled with vacancies and by all accounts was dilapidated.
  — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
• One of Poway’s most historic structures — one that has become rat-infested and dilapidated since being shuttered and fenced off 15 years ago — will likely be torn down to make way for a low-income housing complex for veterans.
  — J. Harry Jones, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Jan. 2018
• The brick houses are dilapidated, abandoned, overgrown.
  — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
• On the one hand, the structure is dilapidated and inaccessible to people with disabilities — a significant problem when a good portion of your regulars are senior citizens.
  — Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• Rossello highlighted how the island’s electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.
  — Reuters, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2018
• Prepa’s generation plants and distribution lines were dilapidated after years of inadequate maintenance when Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico last year, knocking out power for millions of customers.
  — Andrew Scurria, WSJ, 11 July 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024