| In unsettling contrast to its meticulously groomed environs, an aura of dilapidation pervades the site. |
| In short, it was to dilapidation what the American Civil War was to skirmishing. |
| Regardless of their antiquity or state of dilapidation, there was a constant demand for such books. |
| The dust, the dirt, the decay and the dilapidation have taken away the exuberance from the ordinary lives. |
| Furthermore, we fail to understand the logic using degeneration and dilapidation of the park as the justification for immediate encroachment. |
| The warehouse sits amid a swathe of Glasgow's grey industrial landscape, the peeling paint on the gate hinting at dilapidation. |
