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showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect a dilapidated car that had seen better days
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Recent Examples of dilapidated
Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026 The guy handed Gary some cash and Stewart disappeared into a dilapidated trailer. —Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026 From the air, Port-au-Prince is a dense sprawl of chaotic streets and dilapidated houses. —Denise Schrier Cetta, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026 The camera lingers, luxuriously, on the dilapidated roadside. —Elena Clavarino, Air Mail, 14 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dilapidated
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But these Brown and Black immigrants were usually segregated into dilapidated apartments in the region’s oldest housing stock. —Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026 The guy handed Gary some cash and Stewart disappeared into a dilapidated trailer. —Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026 From the air, Port-au-Prince is a dense sprawl of chaotic streets and dilapidated houses. —Denise Schrier Cetta, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026 The camera lingers, luxuriously, on the dilapidated roadside. —Elena Clavarino, Air Mail, 14 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dilapidated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dilapidated
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For patients living with rare and neglected diseases, the next breakthrough treatment might already be sitting in a pharmaceutical company’s filing cabinet.— Annette Bakker, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
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When first performed at L.A. Opera a decade ago, the lavish production, co-produced with English National Opera, helped recover a neglected opera.— Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
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Excavators sifted through sandy soil degraded by more than a century of cranberry production that formed a thick, hard layer over the natural freshwater wetlands the farms were built on.— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
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Karácsony is one of those decent, upstanding politicians which degraded systems sometimes throw up unexpectedly.— Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
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The city has been overwhelmed in recent years by an influx of abandoned and stray dogs and puppies.— Alyce McFadden, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
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Antonia Noori Farzan The Providence Police Department is urging drivers to stay off the road, saying that stuck and abandoned cars are causing problems and preventing the city from getting back to normal.— Eryn Dion, The Providence Journal, 24 Feb. 2026
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The body was so badly decomposed that the deceased’s gender could not be determined, said police.— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026
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Clements said the mistaken identification may have happened because the creature decomposed and lost its telltale shell before it was fossilized, complicating identification.— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026
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For myself, having a Wrangler is the perfect vehicle to just drive these desolate roads.— Morgan Korn, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
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Eastern New Mexico — dry, desolate — looks and feels very much like an appendage of West Texas.— Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
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Murray made three throws in the first quarter to keep the Nuggets tethered after a miserable 6-for-22 effort from the field.— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
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And that is exactly what the season proved to be for the third-year forward, a growth curve after a miserable sophomore season.— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2026
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The following weekend, on Easter Sunday, the final boss of the tier — L’ura, a being made of pure light corrupted by the void (although viewers called it a wind chime) — is still alive.— Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
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Goodwill is corrupted on arrival by the modern virtue of avarice.— Andy Andersen, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026
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In the foreground of the painting was a car encampment with a tattered floral sheet woven through the windows, cloth tarps and couch cushions creating a shield against the elements.— Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
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Many wore tattered flip-flops or shoes that offered little protection.— CNN Money, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
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“Dilapidated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/dilapidated. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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