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Usage examples of "delapidate".
It was badly delapidated so that in places we could easily look down into the park as it sloped towards the bottom of the valley where we saw a line of thick bushes and trees marking the course of a hidden stream until it broadened out into an expanse of grey water which was the lake.
I thought of the delapidated farmlands and tumbledown cottages that lay around Melthorpe and its neighbouring villages.
Enclosing the yard were two tumbledown ricks, a midden, several delapidated outbuildings, and a drying-ground, in which some more boys were threshing corn with flails.
Oliver manoeuvred the car between a van and a delapidated banger, got out and opened her door.
That night they fried chicken and trimmed a delapidated little spruce that looked more lost and scared in New York than Patsy did.
In his own delapidated vehicle, the engine had growled under the hood, always up in front of him.
Under-Secretary at the Home Office had called it, occupied a delapidated building in Eversholt Street, near to the station.
Oliver manoeuvred the car between a van and a delapidated banger, got out and opened her door.