The dilapidated house at the end of the street is haunted. From LearnThat.org.
Pack of wild dogs, rampant weeds call dilapidated Fairgrounds home. From Wordnik.com. [Albuquerque Business News - Local Albuquerque News | New Mexico Business Weekly] Reference
A second curiosity in the fort is a small unimportant temple, now much dilapidated, which is considered as very sacred by the Hindoos. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey Round the World] Reference
But the buildings were getting old, getting kind of dilapidated some of them, so they tore them all down. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Robert R. Sampson, October 9, 2002. Interview R-0182. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Ya, "dilapidated", in some cases is going to mean the parking adjacent to a building you own, or lease, and evaporating it into a condo bunker. From Wordnik.com. [Metro: Fix the bridges we have (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference
The education system in Zimbabwe has become "dilapidated" he says. From Wordnik.com. [Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk] Reference
"dilapidated" houses west of Johannesburg for more than 50 years. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
She desperately wanted to renovate the White House, which was dilapidated when she moved in. From Wordnik.com. ['Hellcat or Helpmate': The Mary Todd Lincoln Saga] Reference
Their greatest achievements have been to preserve, for the moment, a dilapidated status quo. From Wordnik.com. [Beware Complacency] Reference
Others filled the rows of seats in the dilapidated hall, occasionally calling out for vengeance. From Wordnik.com. [Death by Firing Squad] Reference
But he makes no mention of the city's dilapidated roads, which are among the worst in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Seoul’s Leader] Reference
Flanked by his wife and son, he limped onto the dilapidated barge that took him to a waiting plane. From Wordnik.com. [PEOPLE POWER II] Reference
Look to the right of Aristocrat and you will spot some dilapidated white Art Deco apartment blocks. From Wordnik.com. [Manila] Reference
Livingstone won as an Independent and set out to tackle London's dilapidated transportation network. From Wordnik.com. [A Race to Remember] Reference
Her dilapidated home with its paint-starved paneling only hints at howdifficult this period has been. From Wordnik.com. [The Prison Paradox] Reference
An army of volunteers now harvests food on its 2.75 acres, once the site of a dilapidated playground. From Wordnik.com. [As the Economy Struggles, Urban Gardens Grow] Reference
The neighborhood: Five years ago the Old Market area was full of dilapidated Chinese-style shop houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Life] Reference
Tupman's quiet, potholed streets run by modest houses, trailer homes and dilapidated, shuttered buildings. From Wordnik.com. [BP Getting $308 Million In Federal Funds For California Power Plant] Reference
Now Salemi is taking an unusual step to reincarnate the old town: it is giving the dilapidated villas away. From Wordnik.com. [Villa For Sale: Two Bucks] Reference
Could I, would I, drop everything and search for Durden's "dilapidated house in a toxic-waste part of town"?. From Wordnik.com. [Kim Morgan: The Club in Your Face: The Social Network] Reference
They insisted that I stay the night at their dilapidated apartment, offering to slaughter a sheep for dinner. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
"I am almost alone here now," says Kaariye, 54, who lives in a dilapidated artists 'colony in southern Mogadishu. From Wordnik.com. [Saying a Poem for Peace] Reference
It's a remarkable turnaround, considering the label's dilapidated studio was reduced to a pile of rubble in 1989. From Wordnik.com. [Resurrecting an Old Soul] Reference
Without U.S. backing, he cannot hope to receive the international financing he needs to rebuild his dilapidated country. From Wordnik.com. [Is This Invasion Necessary?] Reference
I took comfort knowing that we two — artists both — were living in similarly dilapidated apartments, pursuing our crafts. From Wordnik.com. [Me And Igi And The Fickle Finger Of Fame] Reference
The Brits discovered the shots were coming from a dilapidated building near the Iranian consulate, which is close to the base. From Wordnik.com. [A Simmering Pot] Reference
Among other things, Hackney is hoping to lure small media companies to the dilapidated area behind the Olympic broadcast center. From Wordnik.com. [East London Hopes for an Olympic Revival] Reference
One bright spot: HUD is tearing down dilapidated high-rise housing projects, with 100,000 units to be demolished by the year 2000. From Wordnik.com. [Should We Rehire This Man?] Reference
Those in Libya, Venezuela and Russia are badly in need of foreign help to rebuild dilapidated infrastructure and upgrade technology. From Wordnik.com. [Oil's Dirty Laundry] Reference
At 4 feet 11 and 105 pounds, the 24-year-old light flyweight boxed his way from the dilapidated gyms of Baghdad to the Olympic ring in Athens. From Wordnik.com. [Career: Baghdad To Houston] Reference
The family members rotate in and out of Perugia, and when they are here, they share a dilapidated car and stay in a tiny hovel outside of town. From Wordnik.com. [Nuclear-Family Fallout] Reference
Eisenhower's tastes ran to plashing streams, dilapidated barns and birch-studded snowscapes in a style that might be called Greeting Card Pastoral. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Politics] Reference
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