dilapidation

How To Use dilapidation In A Sentence

• You have not chosen to particularise what defects and dilapidations you refer to.
• Age is here, but it does not suggest the idea of dilapidation or decay; rather of something which has been put under a glass case, and preserved with care from all extraneous influences. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture
• We meet the commixture of materials and things in our excavation whose object is, among other things, to reorder, to abolish the disorder of collapse and dilapidation, to find significance and signification in the apparent chaos.
• In short, it was to dilapidation what the American Civil War was to skirmishing.
• 'dilapidation' and a huge unintegrated pool of Muslim immigrants. Peaktalk v2
• Ying Pun, a mine northeast original camp, for the 50 - meter square Tucheng now dilapidation to farmland.
• Besides which, they are always kept clean and in good order; you will never find those unsightly barns, and still less the dilapidation which is often met with in the mother land. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
• And to complicate matters yet further, for the few who wished to simplify them, the custom of "borough-English" prevailed, and governed the descent of dilapidations, making nice niceties for clever men of law. Erema — My Father's Sin
• The farmhouse fell into a state of dilapidation.
• The opportunity represented by the crisis of cinema lies in the expected renaissances after the fall, in the stimulating side effects of further dilapidation and aesthetic subversion.