They were chopping at the boarded-up back door too.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Am Legend]

In the boarded-up stores and the broken-down houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ani DiFranco Thrives With 20th Album] Reference

He set them down and glanced at the boarded-up door.    From Wordnik.com.  [While Other People Sleep]

The main shopping area has many boarded-up storefronts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Only in Japan, Real Men Go to a Hotel With Virtual Girlfriends] Reference

They have an advantage over the typical boarded-up variety.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2008] Reference

In their wake were deserted storefronts and boarded-up homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Straight Into Compton] Reference

But condos, hotels, and offices are replacing boarded-up homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2006] Reference

Star steered the Caddy up the street, past boarded-up crackhouses.    From Wordnik.com.  [html]

He lives now on a street still dotted with empty, boarded-up houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Orleans Dispatch: Waiting for Gustav: Laura Parker] Reference

Slivers of sunlight slipped through cracks in the boarded-up windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camera Obscura] Reference

But I think we should do a quick check on that boarded-up mine first.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Revenge]

And they've had twice as many boarded-up houses that's here in Atlanta.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 22, 2008] Reference

Then from the doorway of a boarded-up shop, a small stream of water emerges.    From Wordnik.com.  [justinker Diary Entry] Reference

She slipped into another backyard — behind a house with boarded-up windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhattan Is My Beat]

There's a few locals that have basically taken shelter in boarded-up building.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2005] Reference

MARCIANO: You guys shot across the lake to where your boarded-up studios were.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2005] Reference

She found a boarded-up building, lived above it, and worked seven days a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [President At Small Business Person Of Year Awards] Reference

Now you can barely see the boarded-up windows, because the shrubs are so overgrown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judge May Hold Investors Responsible For Blight] Reference

CARROLL: Over in El Paso, Bruce's life is full of rundown and boarded-up apartments.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2006] Reference

I am going to put it on the mantel of my boarded-up fireplace, and I am going to wait.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart Jar] Reference

New houses are being built directly opposite that revolting boarded-up housing estate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A guide to Glasgow East] Reference

Empty lots line streets dotted with dilapidated housing and shops with boarded-up windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boardwalk Empire: Atlantic City bets on its glamorous past to assure its future] Reference

That is a rarity folks and now mangled buildings with boarded-up windows are a common sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2008] Reference

The crowd marches past the hastily boarded-up windows of Cashmere Hampton, Coach, and Ralph Lauren.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beach Road]

I pass a boarded-up drugstore, a wig shop, and a kiosk that reads checks cashed in multiple languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing Acts]

Elections were over, but the few dim lights along the street showed only boarded-up and darkened buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Police Your Planet] Reference

And they're having reports of dogfights, drug deals, lots of crime going on behind those boarded-up windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2008] Reference

Canvassers are finding abandoned homes with boarded-up windows, and political ads are flickering past unnoticed.    From Wordnik.com.  [FLORIDA: THE SWIRLING WINDS OF POLITICS] Reference

There are no windows anywhere, and at both ends of the mall are desolate areas dotted with boarded-up storefronts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where The Price Is Always Right] Reference

Two blocks down I came on a couple young roughnecks sprawled on the dilapidated front porch of a boarded-up house.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Be A Child (Part II of III)] Reference

Alongside these boarded-up houses there are often homes occupied by people living on the edge of foreclosure themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Dream—Only This Time in Reverse] Reference

Parts of the storm area look like a war zone, with emptied housing projects, roofless homes and boarded-up shopping centers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trauma After The Storm] Reference

M. GAULT: M. daughter's bedroom is here just to the left of this boarded-up window and the closets actually collapsed inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2004] Reference

Customers were still entering the boarded-up Star Value Super Market in Manteo to get last-minute supplies Thursday afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracing for Hurricane Earl] Reference

CANDIOTTI: As we drive along the coast, mortared by boarded-up historic homes facing the water, we come upon a woman walking her bike.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2004] Reference

It is visible not only on the bottom line for the fourth quarter, but also on the boarded-up storefronts on streets across the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surviving The Shakeout] Reference