How to Use disrepair in a Sentence

disrepair

noun

• The lighthouse was in disrepair until the volunteers cleaned it up.
• After years of neglect, the house fell into disrepair.
• The windows were in disrepair and there were few lights.
  — Libertina Brandt, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
• Most of the debris was cleared by the UN, but much of the airport remains in disrepair.
  — Fred Bahnson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• On top of this, the building was in such disrepair that it was condemned.
  — Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2021
• And if the Cougars’ defense is in disrepair, maybe those answers have to come from the offense.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
• At the time, the old mule barns had languished in disrepair for decades, and the empty street was used for parking.
  — Kate Marijolovic, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2024
• One, known as the Wadsworth mansion, fell into disrepair and was torn down in 1950.
  — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
• The home's owner passed away more than a year ago, leaving the house to fall into disrepair.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 May 2023
• Fawcette says Nichols’ home fell into a state of disrepair.
  — al, 16 Aug. 2021
• By the time the Scarlett family bought Whitehall, the place was in disrepair.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• Since then, the Detroit plant sat vacant and stood in disrepair.
  — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2021
• The impression Belle Isle left on him then was of disrepair.
  — Mason Young, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2022
• Us kids were left to our own devices, in varying states of disrepair.
  — Sarah Paley, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2021
• The theater fell into disrepair and closed in 1987, Nyquist says.
  — Gary Stoller, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• The talk show host had learned that Conway’s husband, Marcus, had lost his job and that their home was old and in disrepair.
  — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2022
• Across our district and country, roads and bridges are in disrepair.
  — Ben Smilowitz, Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
• But by the time of her death in 1988, Llangollen had fallen into disrepair.
  — Kathy Orton, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
• But over the years, the headstones have fallen into disrepair.
  — Lisa Rathke, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2022
• The caning had fallen into disrepair but the seat cushion was in good shape.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
• With time, the three-room clapboard house fell into disrepair.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
• That turned out to be a mixed blessing: This was his dream place but the facilities were in dire disrepair.
  — Lily Templeton, WWD, 15 June 2024
• Gravity had pulled it into the earth as the cemetery fell into disrepair over the years.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 6 Nov. 2022
• Eventually if fell into disrepair and the city stepped in to buy it in 2009.
  — Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• According to Bronin, the school is a historic building that has been vacant for a long time and in some disrepair.
  — Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2023
• Clark Park, in the heart of southwest Detroit, was in disrepair, with ruts in the baseball field, a run-down rec center and a decrepit ice rink.
  — Eric Guzmán, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2024
• After that, the house slipped into disrepair and squatters moved in.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• Some of the buildings and the drying platforms have fallen into disrepair from lack of use.
  — Farai Shawn Matiashe, CNN, 22 Apr. 2022
• After the mine closed in 1953 and the need for the hospital diminished, the building fell into disrepair, standing vacant for decades.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2024
• Conditions are improving in some areas, but many are still in disrepair.
  — Abigail Adams, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024