How to Use disrepair in a Sentence

disrepair

noun
  • The lighthouse was in disrepair until the volunteers cleaned it up.
  • After years of neglect, the house fell into disrepair.
  • Many of the buildings on Main Street are in some form of disrepair.
    — Thomas Fuller, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2021
  • Many of the buildings on Main Street are in some form of disrepair.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2021
  • By the 1980s, the building had fallen out of use and was in disrepair.
    — Dallas News, 13 May 2021
  • The windows were in disrepair and there were few lights.
    — Libertina Brandt, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Most of the debris was cleared by the UN, but much of the airport remains in disrepair.
    — Fred Bahnson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Yet as the decades passed, the apartments that made up the Alazán-Apache Courts fell into disrepair.
    — Marina Starleaf Riker, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Feb. 2021
  • On top of this, the building was in such disrepair that it was condemned.
    — Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2021
  • And if the Cougars’ defense is in disrepair, maybe those answers have to come from the offense.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • At the time, the old mule barns had languished in disrepair for decades, and the empty street was used for parking.
    — Kate Marijolovic, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2024
  • One, known as the Wadsworth mansion, fell into disrepair and was torn down in 1950.
    — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
  • One, known as the Wadsworth mansion, fell into disrepair and was torn down in 1950.
    — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
  • One, known as the Wadsworth mansion, fell into disrepair and was torn down in 1950.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Many of the homes and buildings around the sea have fallen into disrepair.
    — Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The Mark Twain Zephyr passed through the hands of a half-dozen or so owners as the once gleaming state-of-the art train sank into disrepair.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2020
  • The home's owner passed away more than a year ago, leaving the house to fall into disrepair.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 May 2023
  • However, over the years, the house has faced disrepair.
    — Julia Fomby, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Fawcette says Nichols’ home fell into a state of disrepair.
    — al, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Fawcette says Nichols’ home fell into a state of disrepair.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2021
  • By the time the Scarlett family bought Whitehall, the place was in disrepair.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • Since then, the Detroit plant sat vacant and stood in disrepair.
    — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The impression Belle Isle left on him then was of disrepair.
    — Mason Young, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2022
  • Us kids were left to our own devices, in varying states of disrepair.
    — Sarah Paley, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The theater fell into disrepair and closed in 1987, Nyquist says.
    — Gary Stoller, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The restaurant had been in disrepair for years as its owner sought ways to sell the property.
    — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The talk show host had learned that Conway’s husband, Marcus, had lost his job and that their home was old and in disrepair.
    — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2022
  • Across our district and country, roads and bridges are in disrepair.
    — Ben Smilowitz, Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
  • The woman’s house had been in disrepair before the collapse, WPVI reported.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The idyllic backdrop is set against the unrelenting passage of time, which has left the majestic estate in a state of disrepair.
    — Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Apr. 2025

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