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.
• Many of the buildings on Main Street are in some form of disrepair.
  — Thomas Fuller, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2021
• By the 1980s, the building had fallen out of use and was in disrepair.
  — Dallas News, 13 May 2021
• 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
• Yet as the decades passed, the apartments that made up the Alazán-Apache Courts fell into disrepair.
  — Marina Starleaf Riker, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Feb. 2021
• 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
• Many of the homes and buildings around the sea have fallen into disrepair.
  — Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
• The Mark Twain Zephyr passed through the hands of a half-dozen or so owners as the once gleaming state-of-the art train sank into disrepair.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2020
• 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 restaurant had been in disrepair for years as its owner sought ways to sell the property.
  — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Mar. 2021
• 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 as jobs and salaries were lost, many homes fell into disrepair or were abandoned.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2020
• But over the years, the headstones have fallen into disrepair.
  — Lisa Rathke, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2022
• Topping the list are New Hampshire's aging roads and bridges, many of which are in a state of disrepair, according to the White House.
  — Christian Wade, Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2021
• The caning had fallen into disrepair but the seat cushion was in good shape.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
• It’s abandoned now and has fallen into disrepair, with broken slats on the wood steps and prickly bushes growing over the front porch.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2025
• After the couple moved out, the house fell into disrepair, was saved from demolition, and was turned into the Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum.
  — Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 2 Mar. 2025