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Example sentences for: disrepair

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The warehouses fell into disrepair in the 20th century, and lay empty for many years before they became a center for the 1960s and 1970s squatter revolution which overtook the city.
Amazingly, this complex was allowed to fall into almost total disrepair over the centuries, and was used as a barracks for Napoleon’s troops during the Wars of Independence.
This 17th-century building was constructed by Governor Samuel Day, who arrived from England, found the old governor’s house in disrepair, and built this house using government land and government wood — yet he refused to hand over the house when he was ousted from office after only two years.
Once the home of the Dukes of Bragança, it fell into disrepair and was reconstructed from ruin in the 1930s.
At the eastern end there’s a wonderful children’s playground, and the Conservatory of Flowers, a Victorian glasshouse from Britain that remains in disrepair after a particularly violent storm a few years ago.