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Sentence Examples A new fountain and a patio paved with Lodi gravel replaced a decrepit pond. The fantasy is unfolding almost invisibly in Prakash Talkies, a decrepit theater with shocking pistachio green walls. He was a ragged decrepit old man blinking in amazement as a silver ship descends into the valley, landing gently beside the lake. Advertisements for these drugs feature, not decrepit old men, but young athletes. But it probably had in mind dud companies such as decrepit cement factories or foundries, not the country's crown jewels. With pop music playing, they always look so young, fresh-faced, attractive and carefree, and make me feel so old, ugly and decrepit. I've moved from a tiny, decrepit college room to a smaller, equally crumbly college-owned house. Until the present Foreign Office was built in the 1860s, the department was housed in decrepit buildings in Downing Street. The guard at the gate watched the decrepit old man limp along in the distance. According to council reports, two thirds of the houses are decrepit with out-of-date heating systems, crumbling walls and dodgy electrics. We had just walked to the top of the hill and scrambled among the ruins of decrepit churches and an old stone castle. What about the shame of housing bright, eager international students in mould infested, decrepit residences? Pulling up outside the shop was a decrepit, battered motorcycle with sidecar and a rider of the same genre. A few kilometers down a decrepit road is a sprawling abandoned battery factory. I strolled into the control room from the studio, and noticed a large fat bloke with a shaven head, wearing a decrepit old tan mac. Demolition debris surrounds the stately but decrepit house of Sripathi Rao, Nandana's grandfather. I trudged over to a ramshackle building reminding me of a snack bar at our decrepit drive-in theater. When they got to the decrepit house, Robin seized Twigg by the arm and pulled him into a nearby bush. I laughed and ran downstairs holding my car keys and decrepit backpack that was practically falling apart. As with Paradise, this story begins in a decrepit relic of a house inhabited by women on the edge of a dying town. Show More Sentences It is old, rickety, and decrepit, and miraculously survives the nine-day trip. Even if she were in trouble she would not leave her decrepit house in a nightgown. The decrepit appearance of the municipal dwelling houses, however, masked their true value. But the fact that he's so old, and so decrepit, and has a walker, and can barely move on his own, makes it funny and makes it work. It might be that I'm too decrepit for the pace of it or it might be the lyrics. Anna is a femme fatale looking for a young powerful lover to help her murder her decrepit husband and make off with his fortune. Will Huntington Drive surrender its decrepit auto-body shops only to make way for chain stores and big boxes? True, you will have to charm the decrepit blimps and blue rinses from the shires into voting for you. They seemed to be quite decrepit, but that may have been only a trick of the light. Trips can also be arranged to visit the decrepit gulags and labor camps used so mercilessly by Stalin during the Red Terror. A ragged decrepit old man blinking in amazement as a parachute descends into the valley, landing gently beside the lake. It's not for working reporters, even old, decrepit ones like myself, to comment on that kind of thing. The mortality rate for refugees in the overloaded and decrepit boats continues to rise. We ran into the docking bay and could not believe the decrepit derelict of a ship that he had waiting for us. The old decrepit man watched as they harassed the beautiful young lady who was trying to enjoy her lunch in peace. But that is as far as I can go in praising this decrepit and mentally unbalanced person. One of his long time friends asked how a decrepit bloke like him had landed such a gorgeous dame. Every day citizens and visitors who have to walk through the city must step gingerly over or around these decrepit characters. If I were a litigant, I would not like an ageing and decrepit judge sitting on my case, where the amounts at issue might be significant. But she rejected him and married a decrepit alcoholic, years older than herself. Show More Sentences Visitors entered a run-down building in a downscale neighborhood to discover what appeared to be a decrepit, abandoned reptile zoo. An original butler's pantry, too decrepit to salvage but architecturally intact enough, served as a model. And it would be lovely to actually build that house on Gola before we're too decrepit to take advantage of it. Seeds and planting supplies were delivered late, wagons and ploughs arrived decrepit, axes were too small to be useful. On the other hand we meet people much younger who behave as if they were decrepit and refuse to keep up with the times. Large pots, merciless heat and a few decrepit plastic chairs and buckets fill her small tent, while bits of stale food cover the floor. I have seen an etheromaniac at forty-one a wizened, bent, decrepit, and tottering old man. And here she was, sitting in this decrepit house on the island, trying to make a life for herself as a painter. I suppose I shall die a decrepit old maid who never found a gentleman worthy enough of wooing her! What he saw on the onionskin that had passed through Dutton's decrepit typewriter left him literally incredulous. Schools look more decrepit than houses, government offices, strung along the road, so run down you wonder if anybody ever visits them. With the help of a decrepit Cheshire cat, Alice must battle the undead and the queen's guards in order to save Wonderland from a horrible fate. I am feeling decidedly old and decrepit this morning and rather disgruntled with life and myself in general! As Heather approached it she saw that it had a piece of decrepit parchment, all rolled up like a scroll. All that remained at Assonde were the decrepit shells of houses. Some people who had flown in this same plane previously talked of it being as decrepit as a cattle car. The GOP lives in a decrepit Hollywood mansion where Gingrich is its Norma Desmond, always ready for his closeup. It was headquartered in Stanleyville, in a tall corner building that still stands in the decrepit, yet lively, downtown. The decrepit BMD came to a stop with a gear-clanking jolt by the water, and within seconds the soldiers broke out the vodka. As I stepped out of a decrepit office building into a perfect sunny day, a member of my team started talking into his radio. Show More Sentences Wandering around Tribeca, you may stumble upon a decrepit elevator shaft that's full of curiosities. All thirteen members, in addition to sound engineers, techs, etc., piled into a decrepit two-story apartment in Montreal and remained there, uninterrupted, for five days. When examined under a dissecting scope, hermaphrodites fed Cry5B toxin for 2-3 days develop decrepit internal morphology, have pale coloration, and move slowly. This beautiful, decrepit city is at its most breathtaking at night, when thousands of lights of the houses on the surrounding hills frame and light up the bay. It won't put medicine in decrepit hospitals or food in empty bellies. Not, as you might think, an organisation that cares for old, decrepit deejays, but a charity set up by mixmasters to donate money to a Music Therapy Trust. Before he could protest, Raylaa had already disappeared into the porch, where the hideous sidecar and the motorcycle with the peeling red paint stood, worn down and decrepit. The Euros look at some fat guy on vacation in one of their decrepit countries, and they want to spit on the ground at the sight of the ugly American. Incapable of reforming itself in the spirit of the new times, the decrepit empire sank into a deep economic and social crisis which it never overcame. His design transports you to the gaudy, decrepit fairground, complete with working helter-skelter and carousel, and shows you the beauty in the ramshackle and ruinous. A distant cloud of dust signals the approach of a decrepit utility. I'd much rather be de-frosted in a hundred years time a reasonably virile man in his twenties, rather than a decrepit octogenarian who had already died once. I refuse to just lie around and do nothing like a decrepit old hag! The marriage of a man to a woman more than twice his age is unheard of in Kenya where nubile, teenage girls are frequently betrothed to decrepit, old men. Outside the grimy windows of the decrepit lounge that serves as a Cabinet office the autumn sunlight filtered through the leaves of the plane trees. For to me it seemeth a thing unreasonable, that, in this my decrepit age, I shall be compelled to fight against shadows, and howlets that dare not abide the light. Tragically misplaced amongst a series of powerful speakers, the decrepit trio brought roars from the pressroom and discomfort for all who shun corniness. While Matthau gives a complex performance as a decrepit, foul-mouthed alcoholic who is still a much-loved father figure, the rest of the cast are sadly underused. She lives alone with her young baby in a damp, decrepit house. This time it was a decrepit, dark and deserted Tudor style house. Show More Sentences The marriage of a man to a woman more than twice his age is unheard of in the country, where nubile, teenage girls are frequently betrothed to decrepit, old men. Shah Jahan would recover from his illness only to spend his last days as an old and decrepit man, imprisoned by his son Aurangzeb, in the fort in Agra. To less decrepit members of the population than me, life means nightlife. Edith Evans made a striking screen debut as the decrepit Countess. David turned to the decrepit man sitting in the interrogation room. He was faced with the great challenge of updating a decrepit and wasteful government system and responding to demands for increased freedom while maintaining order. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. Indeed, most of the townsfolk assumed there wasn't any film in his grimy, decrepit contraptions, with their priapic telescopic lenses. Only a rounded bar and three rotting bathtubs remain in the decrepit club. The Lord Lyon King-at-Arms and his decrepit court will dodder along in front. Stem rust, which spreads via windborne spores, can quickly turn a healthy crop into a decrepit mess of broken stems and shriveled grains. Drowned in eternal mist, illuminated by a decrepit sun or by emphemeral meteors, it is a world of greyness. In 2017 in the budget proposal, Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman requested that the state lease to purchase 1,000 buses to replace the most decrepit vehicles. Shunting them there in a decrepit van is the curmudgeonly Claude. To the end that Kindliness of Nature may endure, chafing with Oyl in a moderate Quantity and Quality is very good for Men of decrepit Age, and for those that are growing Old. The concept of the beautiful woman, now decrepit, played by legendary butoh dancer, Akira Kasai, is the same, but the setting is again placed in a modern context. Belfast families faced being transferred to new, alien estates when older, decrepit districts such as Sailortown and the Pound Loney were being demolished. The Metro has a distinctive design and corporate identity, to distinguish itself from the decrepit rail system it replaced and to match the livery of the buses then in use. Her bumbling henchmen dognap the 15-pup litter owned by nice young Londoners Roger and Anita and stash them with 84 other little whelps in a decrepit country mansion. In recent years decrepit cities looking for new revenue and a symbol of hope have gentrified their waterfront wharfs and warehouses with great fanfare. Examples from Classical Literature Sometimes there was a croon in the voice, sometimes a touch of decrepit anger. Armed with this sanction, Wexley called that evening at the Cooper cottage, where Sade kept house for a decrepit great-aunt. Barbarian princedoms, grown decrepit by reason of wars, caste domination, or a sensual and effete culture. He is a hoary-headed old person, decrepit and garrulous, with only one leg worth speaking about, and an ear trumpet. Perhaps the decrepit parent views his darling son leaving his peaceful abode to enter the ensanguined field, never more to return. The committee not only condoles with the decrepit member, but gives him a sum of money. No matter how decrepit the latter, he has been taught to be independent, self-supporting. We had no lights of course, but there was a bright moon and we got to a little village where there was moored a pretty decrepit looking prahu. But now the world is decrepit, and all good things are gone. Men took upon their shoulders their aged and decrepit mothers. It obliged the owners to maintain their old and decrepit slaves. In the face of hunger, the great leveler, he was as the old, the toothless, and the decrepit. A BOSS dubbed Basil Fawlty was jailed yesterday for turning his decrepit seaside hotel into a death trap. In a very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. The insignificant testament, the last dotage of a decrepit grand art falling back into infancy before it dies. The decrepit figure in its quaint Acadian garb was one to be remembered. The stoat came from a tree which was even more decrepit than the chestnut. The kid figured you for a decrepit old fogy, and just didn't fancy the idea of having to help cart a corpse out of the train at Newmarket. There's slapstick buffoonery, unconvincing peril and mild grumbling as the decrepit duo are tempted by soft beds, pretty ladies and motorised transport. And he was off again, a decrepit vagabond, with his hands in his pockets, his elbows squared, and frayed coat-tails swinging raggedly from side to side. Show More Sentences The smaller building that won their hearts wasn't just a decrepit cowshed. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of decrepit? Words that rhyme with decrepit What is the adverb for decrepit? What is the adjective for decrepit? What is the noun for decrepit? Translations for decrepit Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words decreolized decreolization decrements decremented decremental decrement decrepitation decrepitude decrescendo decrescendos decrescent decretal 8-letter Words Starting With d de dec decr decre decrep decrepi