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Example sentences for: derelict

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They act as if parents like me are derelict, as if children need to fall asleep in a room alone.
On the other hand, listening to the banter between gaggles of Glaswegians at, say, their Barras market on any morning of the year is like listening to the discordant yakking of jackdaws around derelict tenement chimneys in the nesting season.
The number of foreign students has dropped to fewer than 5,000, and derelict boarding schools dot the monotonous countryside.
The new Pousada de São Fransisco has been admirably converted from another convent, once derelict.
Seemingly terrorized by her hooting-mad, derelict father (Robert Duvall, in a hilarious cameo), Doss doffs her duds at the first opportunity and promptly has the hapless attorney on a very tight retainer.