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in bad condition — especially from age and neglect- a dilapidated old car
- The home is dilapidated from decades of neglect.
- After looking the town over with some care, the most suitable place that could be secured seemed to be a rather dilapidated shanty near the coloured Methodist church, together with the church itself as a sort of assembly-room.Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery
- There was a window on each side of the dilapidated entrance;Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
- The old, dilapidated house stood in the setting sun, quiet and serene, belying the horror that it had harbored for so many years.Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
- We crossed a dirt courtyard, where pieces of clothing hung like pennants from a wire, and entered a dilapidated hut like all the others.Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
- The factory was a much bigger building than she had imagined, and it was incredibly dilapidated.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- So, we sit out on her dilapidated porch and she tells me the whole story about Zach.Melody Carlson -- Becoming Me
- But, when the sun was low, three men turned in at the gateway and made for the dilapidated house.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- The Colosseum was a dilapidated shell, and the Arch of Constantine had fallen.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- Mom and Dad moved into a six-story flophouse in a more dilapidated neighborhood.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- She faltered a step toward the dilapidated rail fence as they came up.Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory
- There were no numbers on the dilapidated place, but the tattoo parlor beside it was just two numbers off.Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
- First it was an old police station, then it was a dilapidated storefront sporting a yellow awning that read jade wolf Chinese cuisine.Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
- The men wavered in indecision for a moment, and then with a long, wailful cry the dilapidated regiment surged forward and began its new journey.Stephen Crane -- The Red Badge of Courage
- We spent nearly every waking moment covered with stench and grime while we gutted out Mother's dilapidated house.Dave Peizer -- A Man Named Dave
- He called the Södertälje police and gave them Paolo Roberto's directions to a dilapidated warehouse southwest of Lake Yngern.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
- As Shade swore, Bryan got a glimpse that revealed the dilapidated car was packed with kids.Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
- Duane peeped in to see a dilapidated youngster on her knee.Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
- He had come to Market Basing eight years ago and rented Leigh House, a rambling, dilapidated old mansion fast falling into ruin.Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot