caved-in

Example Sentences

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You’d be forgiven for thinking, given her her drawn, caved-in appearance, hoodie-shrouded and forever preoccupied with self-recorded cassette tapes, that she’d typically be a bit-player oddity in somebody else’s paranoid thriller.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

As they briskly picked their way through caved-in streets and collapsed archways their experience told them there was, however, no hope.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2023

Nearby, under a caved-in ceiling, local farmer Vasyk Oliinyk fired up one of a consignment of wood stoves transported in to help villagers cope with the bitter cold.

From Reuters • Dec. 8, 2022

There are few businesses nearby, and many homes are vacant and condemned, with smashed-out windows and caved-in roofs.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2022

That shack was the beginning of Lacks Town, a single road about a mile long and lined with dozens of houses —some painted bright yellows or greens, others unpainted, half caved-in or nearly burnt- down.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot