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How to use dereliction in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word dereliction? Here are some examples.

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Her husband faces possible court martial for dereliction of duty, cruelty and maltreatment and conspiracy.
It would be the gravest dereliction of duty to wait until we have suffered a terrorist outrage and then respond after the event.
Following a lengthy period of dereliction it has now developed into a most attractive street once again.
The business park will help regenerate this area disadvantaged by years of industrial decay and dereliction.
However, the figures are still dwarfed by the huge scale of the problem of urban dereliction and blight in the area.
In 1272 the town clerk, avoiding imminent charges for dereliction of duty, made off with the original Domesday and other borough records.
This self-inculpation for events not involving the apologists' complicity personalizes and sentimentalizes an act of crime or dereliction.
The investigation cites possible offenses, including involuntary manslaughter, assault, battery, dereliction of duty and conspiracy.
Here is dereliction on a grand scale, sludged in mud dumped from the Channel tunnel.
In Miami, restoration of the buildings was what rescued the district from the brink of dereliction.
The last lightship in Scotland has been given a substantial lottery grant to prevent it from falling into dereliction.
Apologies should be taken automatically as acknowledgement of personal complicity in the crime or dereliction.
Everyone in the village contributed what they could to save their church from dereliction.
Whatever the refurbishment cost the building cannot, must not, become another infamous centre of dereliction.
He says infantry that didn't keep moving and attacking would be accused of cowardice or dereliction of duty.
Around 140 luxury homes are being built around the course as part of a deal to save one of Ireland's great stately homes from dereliction.
There would have been no poll tax, race riots, rail privatisation and less industrial dereliction.
He's charged with maltreating detainees, conspiracy to maltreat detainees, dereliction of duty and indecency.
He did not, however, specify the charges, which include maltreating detainees and dereliction of duty.
Meanwhile, the procurator also launched another investigation into local police and other staff at the asylum for suspected dereliction of duty.
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I never heard of any of them being removed for incompetency, dereliction of duty or malfeasance.
He was still standing there when the checkup squad marched in and arrested him for gross dereliction of duty.
And though some may censure this as a dereliction of principle, I do not so view it.
He bitterly reproached his valet for this dereliction of duty.
These were, my children, said he, the days of my dereliction.
Chairing a meeting on Wednesday, he declared that no delay or dereliction would be tolerated in this regard.
To be hobnobbing at the expense of German and British taxpayers while the eurozone is in crisis is a dereliction of duty.
But the dereliction of hope is not the worst enemy of virtuous woman.
He had no reason and only a very poor excuse to offer for his dereliction.
Also, the Delhi government on Friday issued show cause notices to 14 doctors in seven government hospitals for dereliction of duty in dealing with the dengue crisis.
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