How to use "derelict" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "derelict" in popular movie and book plots

  • They move into a derelict apartment, where Murdock helps her through heroin withdrawal while supporting them as a diner chef.  - Born Again (comics)
  • The trio find the missing train inside a derelict railway tunnel, underneath a supposedly haunted windmill.  - Oh, Mr Porter!
  • The final scene shows Larch, watching the sofa at a derelict train station in Canada while perched on a telephone pole.  - Sisters (1973 film)
  • Bok explains that he found the ship as a derelict and offers it to Picard for free.  - The Battle (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • Queenie takes on the task of transforming the derelict into a dowager.  - Pocketful of Miracles
  • A beggar and his son live in a derelict car, a Volkswagen Bug.  - Dodes'ka-den
  • The Neo humans travel to Zone 7, sheltering in a derelict castle, where they discover a robot army.  - Casshern (film)
  • Following this, he fights a gang of Satanic Latino occultists and perverted pedophiles called "The Innocentz" in a derelict shopping center.  - Manhunt (video game)
  • Sandii disappears, Fox is killed, and X retreats to the safest place he knows, the New Rose Hotel, a derelict capsule hotel.  - New Rose Hotel (film)
  • Afterwards, Max takes refuge on a derelict boat in an abandoned harbor, where Nicki appears to him on a television.  - Videodrome
  • At the station, April frees Adrian, the derelict Guardian, and escapes with Halloway in pursuit.  - The Longest Journey
  • On stardate 31419, the Federation starship USS Enterprise finds the derelict SS Botany Bay floating in space.  - Space Seed
  • Sam and two others search for penicillin in a derelict Russian cargo ship that drifted into Manhattan.  - The Day After Tomorrow
  • Kelly determines that the location of Tucker's heroin lab is on board a derelict ship.  - Without Remorse
  • After the truck becomes severely damaged from the chase, the two escape on foot to a nearby derelict factory by cutting through a lemon grove.  - Cobra (1986 film)
  • Convinced that it is the same jug, he buys it and journeys to the derelict airfield.  - Twelve O'Clock High

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