dilapidation
Example Sentences
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The hotel’s dilapidation — to say nothing of its grubby, grabby, mostly male clientele — is a far cry from the yacht parties the women were recently enjoying in Sydney.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
Still, how is it that the official residence of Canadian prime ministers was allowed to fall into a state of dilapidation?
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2023
You wouldn’t choose to wear the scent of dilapidation or urban decline or gentrification or environmental racism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2022
Is 20 miles of disrepair and dilapidation how we want to represent our democracy’s best idea?
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2021
He began to cultivate his corpulence and general physical dilapidation.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
