The tower currently stands derelict covered in a thick layer of ivy in the garden of a private house.    From LearnThat.org.  [www.yourdictionary.com]

derelict (or delinquent) in his duty.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Who wants to live in derelict, isolating urban sprawl, anyway?.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Government May Bulldoze 50 Cities; Create More Green Space | Inhabitat] Reference

Now that this derelict is discovered, that secret is at risk of being revealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review | Stealing Light by Gary Gibson (Tor UK)] Reference

In general it has to be dumped in derelict and unguarded houses, where such of it as is not looted is ruined by damp.    From Wordnik.com.  [As I Please] Reference

I was a woman once, just as a derelict was a ship once.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy] Reference

The derelict are the men and women in the mortgage business and the financial community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Madrick: Stop Whining? The Privileged Are in Charge] Reference

U-turn in government policy, Kangai told the Gazette that land classified as derelict would not be paid for.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The derelict was a schooner, a lifeless and soddened hulk, so heavy and uncontesting that its foundering seemed at hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Junk] Reference

Hundreds of fans stormed the gates and overwhelming security personnel - some of whom Ngoepe called derelict in their duties.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Addabbo agreed, calling the derelict building "a property that has probably very little value to them but a lot of value to us.".    From Wordnik.com.  [NY Post: News] Reference

So now it is a requirement to wear flag lapel pins or be "derelict" ...?.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Stephanopoulos Responds To Obama, Defends Handling Of Debate] Reference

Which one of those meanings where you trying to convey by describing Obama not wearing a flag lapel pin as "derelict"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Stephanopoulos Responds To Obama, Defends Handling Of Debate] Reference

A fire at its height is an awesome sight but a burnt-out building is just another kind of derelict until you go inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Taste for Burning]

'When Tom Redworth has had command of the "derelict" a week, I should like to see her!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

He was at SC a few years back and developed the "derelict" chant that had that Defense so pumped up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get The Picture] Reference

Restoring the six-story building is part of Schneider's personal mission to bring back to life what he considers "derelict" buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals] Reference

"derelict" farms of Essex, or it was changed to grass land and used for cattle grazing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons on Soil] Reference

'derelict' as a naval expression to imply holidays on which no one had a claim, and which might therefore be given to Mansfield Park.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference

She is not a derelict, not a party girl; she's a mom.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Deadly Passage To India] Reference

Now the formerly derelict courts are the city's best.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Tennis Courts: Good, Bad and Ugly] Reference

When it's a derelict petrol station forecourt, apparently.    From Wordnik.com.  [This week's new film events] Reference

Till I came to the marge of Lake Labarge and a derelict there lay.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Cremation of Sam McGee'] Reference

Doesn't that make the BLM a little more than derelict in their duty?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Parker: Off-Road Racing Accident Kills Eight: So Who's Responsible?] Reference

Gill looked back down the hall at the hunks of derelict metal in their cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [They Would Judge His Trespasses] Reference

We do not suggest that they are corrupt or derelict in their responsibilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry J. Stern: Eleven Years A-Waiting] Reference

  Super glue holds the fray in place when it starts to cross the line from stylish to derelict.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Empire Builder] Reference

Where the CIA was derelict was in valuing this intelligence over the dangers of the mounting frauds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cia And Bcci] Reference

Nothing animal moves in this derelict town without first, listening intently for the distant sound of thunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harlequin] Reference

 He slept in the bed that Abraham and I had shared in the apartment that sat over our father's derelict candle shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroic] Reference

Three weeks ago all foreign-aid groups were ordered to move "for their security" to a derelict compound outside Kabul.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Women Are The Enemy] Reference

Thirty years ago artists started renting studio space in SoHo's derelict factory buildings and living in them illegally.    From Wordnik.com.  [There Goes The Neighborhood] Reference

But after Ireland gained independence in the late 1920s, the apparently just-too-English building was left practically derelict.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Value] Reference

Two years later, Hoffman transformed himself into ailing derelict Ratso Rizzo in John Schlesinger's dark, intense "Midnight Cowboy".    From Wordnik.com.  [John Farr: The Graduate Turns 73: Dustin Hoffman's Top Ten Movies] Reference

There was one perfect place they would have considered, on a hill by the sea, also with a tin barn and a wooden house, but derelict.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Skin] Reference